Moin zusammen.
Starving Zimbabweans raid food lorries
Ten 30-tonne vehicles carrying private imports of the staple maize meal at the Zimbabwean side of the Beit Bridge border post were besieged by hundreds of Zimbabweans desperate for something to eat. Witnesses said that the crowd ripped the stolen bags open to stuff the uncooked cereal into their mouths.
\"I have never seen anything like this in my life,\" said a rancher from southern Zimbabwe. \"I couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams I would ever see Zimbabweans so hungry.
\"Piles of bags of maize meal were on both sides of the road and people from all over the district came streaming in and I saw some breaking open the bags and eating it raw.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/3453631/Starving-Zimbabweans-raid-food-lorries.html
The madness that is Zimbabwe
In the madness of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, where most people are hungry or on the point of starvation, police stopped one of the largest food producers planting his maize crop nearly two weeks ago.
By this week they had still not allowed him to resume planting the food that millions of starving Zimbabweans so desperately need.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20081114053647839C611454
US doctors shocked at state of Zim health system…
Remnants of the staff were doing their best to keep the buildings clean. Most wards were empty, the reception areas deserted. Window panes were broken; anthills of earth grew through a cracked floor, and sparrows flew along the corridors, darting into offices and a nurses station.
\"I have never seen anything like this,\" Trubenbach said.
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http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-13-us-doctors-shocked-at-state-of-zim-health-system
Cholera Deaths Masked In Official Figures
THE Zanu PF politburo was on Wednesday presented with a shocking report on cholera deaths, suggesting that hundreds of people could have died across the country due to the outbreak of the water-borne disease.
Politburo sources said the party’s secretary for health Sydney Sekeramayi told the senior officials that the disease was widespread and had claimed more lives than had so far been publicly revealed.
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http://www.thezimbabweindependent.com/local/21529-cholera-deaths-masked-in-official-figures.html
Harare diary: New abductions
Then the topic turned to the recent abductions; and whether or not the rumours about the renewed violence are true; and if it has actually started again.
One of my colleagues confirmed it was true - people in the rural areas are disappearing in the night, she told us.
She had travelled to her family rural area over the weekend and said everyone was talking about it. She said it is becoming a real worry for the rural folk once more and if we were to have new elections, then how much worse could things get.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7726977.stm
The see-no-evil foreign policy
Why post-apartheid South Africa, once a shining beacon of human rights, is cosying up to nasty regimes around the world
http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12607346
Gruß, Michael