Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for Useless Money

Zimbabwe’s economic unraveling has, indeed, accelerated since the chaotic, often violent invasions of thousands of white-owned farms by Mr. Mugabe’s supporters began in 2000. The big farms now produce less than a tenth the corn — the main staple food crop here — of what they did in the 1990s, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported in June.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=0

Millions of Zimbabweans are threatened with starvation after the widespread failure of the latest harvest brought on by the government's disastrous mishandling of land redistribution, and food shortages in the shops caused by hyperinflation. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/21/zimbabwe.unitednations

 "The U.S. sanctions are aimed at fewer than 200 individuals and institutions in Zimbabwe, in a nation of over 13 million people," Smith said. 

http://www.voanews.com/content/united-states-sanctions-zimbabwe/2798784.html