hildbirth last year, compared with fewer than 1,000 a decade ago. As international press reports said this week: “A vast human cull is under way in Zimbabwe and the great majority of deaths are a direct result of deliberate government policies. Ignored by the United Nations, it is a genocide perhaps 10 times greater than Darfur’s and more than twice as large as Rwanda’s.”
18.1.2007
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Freshly-dug graves in Harare
Stark evidence that Zimbabwe's health system has collapsed and a populace now weakened by five consecutive years of near-starvation dies of things which would never have been fatal before. A staggering 42,000 women died in c