The Economist has a new analysis of Zimbabwe’s crumbling political and economic situation. The article (read here) says that due to rampant inflation and ineffectual government, the country is an “increasingly wretched place” but that it “will grow more miserable for some time yet.”
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Michael Gerson examines the Zimbabwe’s “unending agony,” calling the country’s President Robert Mugabe an “abusive parent.”
“When I talked this week with David Coltart, a Zimbabwean member of parliament and human rights lawyer, his office in Bulawayo had been without power for five hours. The central business district of Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, he said, was “a ghost town,” with “hardly anyone on the streets” and “signs everywhere of total economic collapse. [...] In Zimbabwe, a collapsing economy, malnutrition, high rates of disease and a failing health-care system have produced some of the lowest life expectancies in the world — 34 years for women and 37 years for men.”
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