President Robert Mugabe no longer enjoys the trust of the regional body, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to distribute humanitarian aid fairly, although China is giving cash directly to the ruling ZANU-PF government to combat a national cholera outbreak.
Trust in Mugabe is in short supply. (Image: IRIN)
A cocktail of disease, hunger and political stasis in Zimbabwe has embroiled the country in its worst humanitarian crisis since independence from Britain in 1980.
