DuVernois Blog

Zimbabwe

• Life expectancy 30 years
  
• 3m expecting food aid
  
• 20% adult HIV prevalence; 3,000 Aids deaths each week
  
• 500,000 left homeless this year; 200,000 lost livelihoods
  
• Inflation has reached 600%; Crisis compounded by drought

I think that figure from the BBC tells a lot of the story. A life expectancy of 300 years? A little bit of an update, and also the results of the Valentine's Day women's protests in Harare and Bulawayo.