What did the U.N. get wrong in Zimbabwe?
Foreign Policy‘s Elizabeth Dickinson has reported an important story, based on hundreds of pages of internal U.N. documents, that raises concerns about the U.N.’s handling of the worst humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe since its independence. The story tracks the sluggish international response to a major cholera epidemic in 2008. And it provides a useful test ...
Foreign Policy's Elizabeth Dickinson has reported an important story, based on hundreds of pages of internal U.N. documents, that raises concerns about the U.N.'s handling of the worst humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe since its independence.
Foreign Policy‘s Elizabeth Dickinson has reported an important story, based on hundreds of pages of internal U.N. documents, that raises concerns about the U.N.’s handling of the worst humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe since its independence.
The story tracks the sluggish international response to a major cholera epidemic in 2008. And it provides a useful test case on how the U.N. struggles to balance its desire to maintain cordial working relations with autocratic rulers like President Robert Mugabe while trying to respond to a humanitarian calamity that these leaders are loath to acknowledge.
Colum Lynch was a staff writer at Foreign Policy between 2010 and 2022. Twitter: @columlynch
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