Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

A young girl carries firewood for cooking in Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Roads, water, and power services are collapsing as Zimbabwe battles with the worlds highest inflation currently estimated at over 231 million percent. According to an Amnsety International report released Friday, President Robert Mugabes government is deliberately protecting those who have committed human rights violations in order to maintain its hold on power and this has allowed human rights abuses to escalate.

Phai Munaingo, left who lives with his family of four children in a one room makeshift home in Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct.31, 2008.

A young boy drives his toy wire car while carrying a cabbage for the evening meal in Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.

Phai Munaingo, left who lives with his family of four children watches his wife prepare a meal in Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Food, gasoline and medicine are scarce, and even if Zimbabweans could find goods in the stores, they could afford to buy little with official inflation of 231 million percent, the highest in the world.

Two young children carry firewood for cooking in Epworth, near Harare, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.

People shop at a market in Harare Friday Oct. 31, 2008. Critics of President Robert Mugabe accuse him of destroying his country, once the region's breadbasket, with corruption and mismanagement, while Mugabe blames his international isolation on the country's crisis.

 

A woman prepares soya bean chunks in plastic bags at a market in Harare Friday Oct. 31, 2008.