Zimbabwe in crisis

While studying in the United States, he was a policy analyst at several non- governmental and governmental research institutes and offices, including Amnesty International, the office of US Senator Dianne Feinstein, the United Nations Association of the USA, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. [...] The services sector's contribution to Zimbabwe's GDP decreased slightly from 58.9 percent in 2001 to 57.2 percent in 2006, although this figure should be seen in the context of a drop in the share of value-added products in the social services sector from 10.8 percent in 2001 to 7 percent in 2006. [...] Life expectancy collapsed from 59 years in 1990 to 37 years in 2005, and is now among the lowest in the world, apparently the combined result of declining nutrition and the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic (see Table 2). [...] Indeed, the country lags in the development of information and communications technology generally: in 2006, it ranked one hundred and thirty-fifth out of 195 economies in terms of mobile phone penetration, and one hundred and tenth in terms of Internet penetration (UNCTAD, 2007a). [...] The food security problem is exacerbated by the Mugabe government's refusal for several years to acknowledge its seriousness, even as human rights organizations, multilateral institutions, Western governments, civil society, and the opposition have accused the ruling party of controlling the supply of food and food aid and of using food as a political weapon to weaken the opposition and strengthen