Coming to terms with Zimbabwe

The World
To outsiders Zimbabwe seems to be in crisis. A cholera epidemic has killed over 1,000 Zimbabweans and the economy is in collapse. On Monday, the U.S. and Britain demanded that President Mugabe step down but Mugabe says he will never surrender. For insight into this transcontinental power-struggle, we turn to journalist Heidi Holland, the author of "Dinner With Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant." "The people who pay for his anger in response to humiliation piled on by the west are the ordinary Zimbabweans." --Heidi Holland on Robert Mugabe
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