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The Dire State of Affairs in Zimbabwe

A hospital ward in Zinbabwe

Zimbabwe faces a variety of difficult economic, political and social challenges as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, political oppression, increasing mortality rates and a worsening education system. Zimbabwe's current crisis, described by some observers as the country's worst humanitarian crisis since independence in 1980, has been attributed to gross government mismanagement, a severe nationwide drought and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.