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Zimbabwe's Children 'Put at Risk'


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Zimbabwe government, children, orphans, funding, dishonesty, corruption, politics, ethics )

Dee
- 181 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Some governments around the world are putting politics before the lives of Zimbabwe's children, British charity Save the Children UK told the BBC.
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Dee C. (514)
Wednesday June 10, 2009, 5:23 am
"It says they are withholding funding until there is true political reform.

There are an estimated 1.5 million orphans in Zimbabwe, the highest number per head of population in the world.

A charity official suggested fears that aid would be misused by President Robert Mugabe were unfounded as it could be channelled through the UN.

The BBC's Mike Thompson, who has just returned from Zimbabwe, says that some estimates put the total number of orphans in the country as high as 1.8 million."

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