'Inflation 1,600%
Unemployment 80%
Population living on less than £1 a day 80%
Gross domestic product down 30% in ?ve years
Life expectancy (men) 37 years
Life expectancy (women) 34 years
Infant mortality 60 per thousand live births
HIV/Aids one in five adults infected
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's endlessly proclaimed illusion of Zimbabwean
democracy, prosperity and health and education for all reached its most
surreal extreme at a party held yesterday costing 300m Zimbabwe dollars to
celebrate his 83rd birthday.
This sum would have been worth £150,000 when officials of the ruling Zanu-PF
began collecting for the event in December, but by this weekend it was down
to £23,000, so fast is the currency falling in value.
Mugabe mingled with the 20,000 guests in the Mboka football stadium in the
city of Gweru and used a lengthy speech to condemn homosexuality. The party
was shown on national tele-vision, although viewers in Harare suffered a
power cut.'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1434858.ece
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