Cow Dung: It's For Supper in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe

The decades-long march to oblivion by Robert Mugabe is a disaster for the people of Zimbabwe, which was once the breadbasket of Africa.

Now, after Mugabe has run the farmers off their land and allowed squatters to take possession and farm on their own...that African nation teeters on the edge, and remains propped up by the Legacy Media types while the people have to mix cow dung with their food in order to avoid starvation. 

Harare, Dec 10, 2008 / 08:01 pm -- Caritas Internationalis is warning that the crisis in Zimbabwe is so grave that people facing crushing food shortages are mixing cow dung with their food.

With pressure continuing to mount on President Mugabe to relinquish his hold on power, Zimbabweans are suffering the consequences of his government’s policies.

Besides the lack of food, people are also suffering a cholera epidemic and crippling hyperinflation.

Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight reports that "people in Zimbabwe are dropping dead on the streets from Cholera. They’ve witnessed people mixing cow dung with what’s left of their food to make it go further. This is poverty at its most dehumanizing."

..... A Caritas survey in October found 70 to 90 percent of households going hungry and the remainder on the brink of starvation. At least 5.1 million people are facing starvation out of a population of 13 million people. Additionally, nearly 14,000 cases of Cholera have been reported.

Source: News Busters

An excellent historical sketch of the destruction of the breadbasket of Africa by Robert Mugabe can be found in a December 2003 article in The Atlantic Magazine, entitled, appropriately enough, "How To Kill A Country".

Previously: 

Zimbabwe Releases $500,000,000 Note, 
Inflation at 165,000 Percent

Pets Killed For Food In Zimbabwe