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  • Desperate mothers throw away 20 babies a week as Zimbabwe starves

    04/02/2006 6:40:06 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 118 replies · 1,645+ views
    The Sunday Times ^ | April 2, 2006 | Christina Lamb
    Mugabe refuses to seek food aidTHE first time Knowledge Mbanda found a dead baby in the drains of Harare, he was horrified. “It is completely against our culture to abandon children,” he said. “I thought it must be of a woman who had been raped or a prostitute.” But now he and fellow council workers find at least 20 corpses of newborn babies each week, thrown away or even flushed down the lavatories of Zimbabwe’s capital. The dumping of babies, along with what doctors describe as a “dramatic” increase in malnourished children in city hospitals, is the most shocking illustration...