Zimbabwe: a diarist tells a bleak story...

Esther (not her real name), 28, a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, describes how the daily struggle to survive is reaching a point of desperation. 

We have been very patient, waiting all this time for a peaceful solution. It is getting to be too much now. 

It is beyond what anyone can face; what an individual can take. 

The cutting off of the city's water when there's a cholera outbreak, the cash withdrawal limit and now the security forces becoming undisciplined. 

We deserve a better life. We are not a country at war but look at the kind of life we are living. What on earth is going on? More...

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