Jan Egeland Life Quotations

Conditions here are totally unacceptable. It has to change because people have to live a better life and have a better future.

The backdrop is a dramatic one in Zimbabwe, one of the most dramatic in the world. Life expectancy has plummeted from around 63 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 33.9 years in 2004. This is a meltdown. This is a nearly halving of life expectancy.