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Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, surrounded by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east and northeast. Zimbabwe ... meets Namibia to the west at a single point. To the south, Zimbabwe is separated from South Africa by the Limpopo River. The north-western border is defined by the Zambezi River. Zimbabwe's highest peak is Mount Nyangani (formerly Mount Inyangani), at 2,592 m (8,504 ft);[29] it lies within the Nyanga National Park in the east of the country. The lowest point of Zimbabwe is the junction of the Runde and Save rivers 162 m (531 ft).
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Historically, Zimbabwe's closest links have been with the U.K.; ... in the past seven years, this relationship has been very strained. The government has demonized Britain in the press, blaming the country for Zimbabwe's problems, and claiming that Britain reneged on promises made at Lancaster House to provide money for land reform. As with the U.S., thousands of Zimbabweans studied in the U.K., and private links remain close; however, official relations are strained.
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The Zimbabwe air force has played a particularly important role in quelling mass protests by monitoring ground movements of protesters. Asked why Pakistan, a Commonwealth country, was deploying military trainers to Zimbabwe despite human rights abuses that had prompted the Commonwealth to suspend the country, Mr Hayat said only: “Pakistan has been involved in military and defence cooperation with Zimbabwe for a long time. The agreement has only been renewed now.” The last such agreement was signed in 1983.
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While campaigns to prevent and treat HIV in other African nations benefit from international aid, the political situation in Zimbabwe has caused most foreign donors to either decrease aid for the country or halt it altogether. The United States, Australia and the European Union have ... imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe is experiencing one of the world’s worst HIV epidemics. Over 3,200 people die each week from AIDS related illnesses (UN 2005), which ... account for some 75% of all hospital admissions. Zimbabwe is the first country in southern Africa to have reduced HIV prevalence. Prevalence fell to 18%. There are an estimated 1.3 million orphans and 1.8 million Zimbabweans living with HIV and AIDS. Life expectancy at birth has fallen below 35 years, having reached over 55 years previously.
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In 2000, veterans of Zimbabwe's war for independence in the 1970s began squatting on land owned by white farmers in an effort to reclaim land taken under British colonization—one-third of Zimbabwe's arable land was owned by 4,000 whites. In Aug. 2002, Mugabe ordered all white commercial farmers to leave their land without compensation. Mugabe's support for the squatters and his repressive rule has led to foreign sanctions against Zimbabwe. Once heralded as a champion of the anticolonial movement, Mugabe is now viewed by much of the international community as an authoritarian ruler responsible for egregious human rights abuses and for running the economy of his country into the ground.
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