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...With more than a quarter of Zimbabwe's population living as refugees outside of the country, a national unemployment rate of 94%, a cholera epidemic that has already killed 3,000 people and a currency rendered nearly useless by hyperinflation, Tsvangirai says the time for negotiation has passed. Explaining his decision to join Mugabe's government, the former mine worker compared the nation's humanitarian crisis to a bus hanging over a cliff: "If you allow it to tip over, we will all tip with it." (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
Even if they can work together, Tsvangirai and Mugabe must revive an economy - and a country - in a coma. Unemployment is near universal. The currency is worthless and all but abandoned. More than half the country needs food aid. Cholera has killed more than 3,000 and infected tens of thousands more. Millions of Zimbabweans have simply fled the country...
...Zimbabwe Finally a Unity Government, But Huge Problems Remain After a nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...negotiations over how that might be accomplished. In the meantime, Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has sharply deteriorated. Inflation has spiraled out of control, unemployment is near universal, poverty is endemic, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the country and close to 3,000 people have died of cholera since the collapse of water and sewage systems in the capital, Harare. (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...will all be dead by then.' MATIDAISHE NZOU, a Zimbabwean who has lost five relatives to a cholera epidemic, on the news that President Robert Mugabe plans to hold new elections...