At the root of Zimbabwe’s suffering is the fact the people of that country refuse to take responsibility for ending their own suffering. They ask the outside world for help and when that help is given, they reject it as not good enough. The people of Zimbabwe, yes, have defeated every single reasonable solution that has been offered to them by their neighbours and the world.

Desmond Tutu threw the moral weight of his Nobel Peace Prize and war on apartheid into the Zimbabwe struggle, suggesting it was time to threaten President Robert Mugabe’s ouster by force. The retired South African archbishop also criticized his own government’s handling of the crisis.
The comments came as the government of President Robert Mugabe brought [...]

In Zimbabwe’s city, Mutare, residents are shunning regular commuter operators and using other forms of transport – like open lorries – saying buses are simply too expensive. Trucks usually travel to the city center daily to hire laborers. Now, however, drivers say their business has picked up dramatically since they began ferrying residents to and [...]

Zimbabwe has collapsed, and the world must act now to keep it from deteriorating into Somalia-scale chaos, the top U.S. envoy for Africa said Thursday.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said questions about how much longer Zimbabwe can withstand hunger, disease and political stalemate before disintegrating ignore that “there is a [...]

The British Red Cross launched an appeal on 11 December to help thousands of people affected by cholera and food shortages in Zimbabwe and the surrounding region. The appeal will support emergency relief to support health, water and sanitation, and hygiene needs. In the last two weeks, Red Cross volunteers have reached more than 11,000 [...]

This is a new low for Robert Mugabe - his government has “accused the West of deliberately starting the country’s cholera epidemic”.:

“The state-run Herald newspaper said comments by the U.S. ambassador that the U.S. had been preparing for the outbreak raised suspicions the West had waged “serious biological chemical war.
The Herald quoted the information minister, [...]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the country’s cholera outbreak had been contained. He spoke as South African officials declared part of their northernmost province a disaster area, blaming Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak spreading across the border. Nearly 800 people have been killed by cholera in Zimbabwe, prompting Western leaders to call for the ousting of President [...]

For all of its sympathetic hand wringing, the media in countries like the United States and Britain have ignored the part Western nations have played in this mess and placed the blame solely on the shoulders of President Robert Mugabe and his demand for land reform.

Botswana will close its embassy in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, according to reports from IRIN.
It was unclear whether Botswana’s decision to close its diplomatic mission in Harare would also lead to the severing of diplomatic ties with President Robert Mugabe’s government, but the decision comes a few weeks after the country’s foreign minister called on [...]

According to BBC reports:

The UN Children’s Fund in Zimbabwe says it is preparing to deal with a possible 60,000 cholera cases in coming weeks, four times current official estimates.
The Unicef chief in Harare, Roeland Monasch, said such a jump could bring the number of deaths to around 3,000…UK PM Gordon Brown says it is [...]