Sky news recently found that many children are dying of food shortages in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe was caught trying to use his security forces to hide the malnutrition from the rest of the world. Many hospitals are being strictly monitored so that people can tell the world what is going on. This is a direct impact of Mugabe's organized campaign to cover up what is going on in Zimbabwe. One of the security officers was interviewed and told them that they were ordered to make threats to the hospitals and said that the nurses would face jail if they were to tell what was going in the hospitals. They also found that many kids aren't even going to the hospitals anymore because Zimbabwe's health system can't do anything for the dying children. The UN currently states that 3.9 million Zimbabweans need food and next year it will increase to 5.1 million, half of the country's population. The agencies that help people in Zimbabwe had been banned for 3 months by Robert Mugabe during the election but now are back and struggling to help the people because there are so many. Even the aid agencies are still being harassed by the security forces. They are setting up road blocks and searching all the aid vehicles even taking some of the food meant for the starving children. Many families are now living on one meal a day or even starting to eat poisonous trees to fill up their empty stomachs.
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