The Human Cost of Zimbabwe’s Troubles

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The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tvangirai, is in Washington this week to meet with President Obama. He’s here to garner support for Zimbabwe’s power-sharing ?Unity? government. What’s the real state of the country, politically and economically? The BBC’s Mike Thomson has just returned from an undercover reporting trip to the country, and joins The Takeaway to talk about Zimbabwe’s troubles, and the orphans who suffer the price.

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