Zimbabwe might be at risk of being thrown out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose officials are in the country assessing its economic policies, a state-run weekly newspaper warned yesterday. Harare won itself a six-month reprieve in September 2005 by making an unexpected payment of US$120 million (R730 million) to the IMF to relieve some of its outstanding debt. But the Sunday Mail quoted "impeccable sources" as saying the IMF had now shifted its focus away from Zimbabwe's debt arrears of $136.7 million and on to its domestic financial policies.