Report details Zimbabwe's `massive humanitarian crisis'

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/13304707.htm

BY LAURIE GOERING
Chicago Tribune

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Six months after Zimbabwe's government tore down the homes and businesses of hundreds of thousands of city dwellers it considered potential political opponents, at least 570,000 people remain homeless, many living outside with little or no shelter, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Worse, Zimbabwe's government is deliberately obstructing efforts by humanitarian groups to assist the displaced, the group said, creating what it termed a "massive humanitarian crisis" that the government has tried to conceal and other African nations have largely ignored.

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The government has refused to allow relief agencies to provide tents or plastic sheeting to displaced families because "it would be an acknowledgement of the massive crisis it has created," Kasambala said. "This is a crisis that is being hidden away."

President Robert Mugabe denies that thousands are homeless in the country, calling reports to the contrary "a figment of (the) imagination."

well let`s just say he needs to go away...forever

He's related to the current occupant of the White House, or is this another dynamic?