should do do you trust president mnangagwa to make things better? crowd: no! there's nojobs, there's no money, there's no food stamps. millions of zimbabweans go to bed hungry, dependent on handouts for survival. this country is on the brink of catastrophe. who or what will save it? more than half a million people living mba re, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of harare. this is where zimbabweans come to escape crushing rural poverty. many find themselves in a different sort of trap. in the last month it has been difficult to obtain cash. 27—year—old richard fanne is desperate to find a way out. is it almost impossible to find a full—time, properjob? it's next to never, finding anything. next to never? next to never. nojobs and soaring inflation — it's a recipe for wholesale desperation. aid agencies reckon half of all zimbabweans now rely on assistance for survival. do you trust president mnangagwa to make things better? crowd: no! worse and worse. so why do you say he is making things worse every day? i don't know if it's him or it's what because things ar

mugabe is better than mnangagwa. zimbabwe's mugabe is better than mnangagwa.we's infrastructure is crumbling. 2 million people in harare have been without piped water for months. the fear is isolated cases of cholera and typhoid could become an epidemic. and the country is in the grip of a power crisis, drought has cut hydroelectricity supplies. this coal—fired power station on the road to mbari is run out of spare parts. at sunset, the mood shifts quickly in mbare, plunging the surroundings into darkness. only a lucky few have generators. richard is now taking me toa generators. richard is now taking me to a friend's house, it's about seven p. m. . to a friend's house, it's about seven p.m.. i can tell you walking through mbare in the dark, well, it's a pretty weird experience. richard guides me down dark alleys and intoa richard guides me down dark alleys and into a block originally built was single male labourers. but it's now teeming with families, crammed into tiny spaces. thank you for letting us come into home. yvonne and nine members of herfamily spann

hope that mugabe's successor, president emmerson mnangagwa, can reverse the decline is running thin. the government is now scrapping a plan to remove grain subsidies next year, a move aimed at shielding zimbabweans from the rising food costs. for more on all of this, we turn to two men who know zimbwe well. gerry bourke is the southern africa spokesman for the united nations world food programme, the ad international agency working to alleviate the food crisis in zimbabwe. he was just there last week. and, harry thomas jr. had a 34ear career as an american diplomat, and served as the u.s. ambassador to mbabwe from 2016 to 2018. and welcome to you both. thank you for being hee. gerry, i do want to begin with you. 60% of thcountry's 14 million don't have to food to meet their basic needs. yorewere just the tell mewhat you saw and heard from families on the ground.>> ell, it's really a national catastrophe, aalamity. people simply do not have enough food. the harvest comes in once a year in april. stocks from that ae largely exhausted. they're looking forward to the next harst in april.