HARARE, 18 December 2008: As if cholera, hyperinflation and food shortages were not enough, there is now also a growing sense of dread in Zimbabwe, as people anticipate living under a state of emergency.-Everything that can possibly go wrong has gone wrong in Zimbabwe, a local told IRIN, a news network part of the UN,in the capital, Harare.
A power-sharing deal, touted as Zimbabwe’s escape route from its socioeconomic malaise, is deadlocked, while the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on 18 December that the cholera death toll since August had risen to 1.111, with 20.581 suspected cases.
Tsvangirai, leader of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is in neighbouring Botswana, holding an expired Emergency Travel Document (ETD) after being denied a passport earlier in 2008.
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF claim they are unable to provide Tsvangirai – who would become prime minister under the power-sharing deal – with a passport because of shortages of materials, but the MDC point out that thousands of other citizens have been issued with travel documents since their leader applied.
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