Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa.

Coming up, it used to be Africa's bread basket. Then it became an economic basket case. Can Zimbabwe thrive again?

We would want to give comfort to investors. There is peace. Zimbabwe is open for business.

The country has huge mineral resources, but can a new government finally put Zimbabwe's natural

wealth to good use? The Zimbabwe diamond sector could be a real litmus test for the rest of the

economy because so many of the problems that have allowed corruption and mismanagement to take hold in

Zimbabwe are present in the diamond sector. That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

July 30th will be a big day for Zimbabwe. It's the day when the country will hold elections.

The first since the former leader Robert Mugabe was

pushed out of office last November. And the election's results will play a big role in determining

Zimbabwe's economic prospects. Emerson Menangagwa, who took over from Mr. Bungabe last day,

has spent the past few months jetting around the world, usually wearing a Zimbabwean flag scarf over his suit,

in an effort to drum up foreign investment. Here's a snapshot.

Now we are saying to the world, Zimbabwe is now open for business.

From now on, Zimbabwe is open for business.

Zimbabwe is open for business. And I invite you to come and invest in Zimbabwe is open for business.

And I invite you to come and invest in Zimbabwe.

Together we can help develop our great continents.

Open for business then, but reviving Zimbabwe's economy is a mammoth task.

The former President Mugabe is accused of shrinking an economy that was once Africa's breadbasket,

once perhaps sub-Saharan Africa's most promising economy.

Mining is now Zimbabwe's big hope.

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