Zimbabwe: Catastrophe Zone
11 minutes, 2005
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Exclusive: A million people destitute, a landscape turned to rubble, fields barren, homes reduced to dust and stones. Truly a humanitarian catastrophe, but this is no earthquake zone. We travelled into the heart of Zimbabwe to find out what's happened to hundreds of thousands of people left homeless since President Robert Mugabe's government bulldozed vast areas of urban slums. The man in charge of the UN's emergency relief programme has arrived in the country to evaluate the crisis and investigate food shortages, as the World Food Programme was finally allowed to distribute more aid. We started our journey in Harare from there we travelled southeast towards the border with Mozambique, where we visited bulldozed townships where once thousands of people lived.