The International Monetary Fund is making loans available to Zimbabwe for the first time in a decade, the BBC has learnt. The $500m (£305m) will be used to replenish Zimbabwe’s dwindling foreign currency reserves.

The money has been released on the condition that Zimbabwe’s finance minister ensures the money is not diverted to other projects.

Zimbabwe is in dire need of aid to rebuild its battered economy.
The way in which the deal has been received is exposing further divisions in the fragile unity government.

The former opposition MDC has been criticised by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party for not doing enough to secure donor funding for the country.