Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Egregious conditions in Zimbabwe - August 2007

My own musings and frustrations seem so pathetically self-indulgent when I read that Zimbabwe has inflation of nearly 5000% (yes, three zeros) and there is literally NOTHING for people to eat - in some stores, the only thing left on the shelves are cosmetics - too expensive for people to purchase.

Here is one story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/01/zimbabwe.aid.reut/index.html

One video (2 min 35 sec):
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/08/06/curnow.zimbabwe.food.crisis.cnn

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