Zimbabwe has won approval to head the UN commission on sustainable development. I’m not kidding, check it out here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_re_af/un_zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has gone from being the “breadbasket of Africa” to being one of the worst places in the world to live in about 12 years. The average life span there is now below 40 years old. The place really started to go downhill when Mugabe instituted land grabs, robbing white farmer’s farms and redistributing them to others. Harvest output plummeted and they have not recovered. Incidentally, Chavez in Venezuela is starting a similar program. We’ll see how much worse off they are in a few years. In any case, the UN is obviously not firing on all cylinders if this is the best candidate they could come up with. Unbelievable….