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| | OSI Forum: Zimbabwe in Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The country, rechristened Zimbabwe, was seen as a model for freedom fighters in other states in the region—in particular neighboring South Africa, where democracy was finally reestablished in 1994 with the transfer of power from the white minority to Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. |
 | | Once a net food exporter and one of southern Africa's wealthiest countries, Zimbabwe is now a dysfunctional state characterized by human rights abuses, lack of respect for the rule of law, rampant corruption, rising poverty levels, and widespread food shortages. |
 | | At an OSI Forum in New York on November 7, 2002, two members of the MDC's shadow government joined two Zimbabwean human rights advocates, including one from the recently formed Save Zimbabwe campaign, to discuss the increasingly dire civil rights situation in their country. |
| www.soros.org /resources/events/zimbabwe_20021107 (485 words) |
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