Zimbabwe suffers the world's highest inflation rate, estimated at 231 million percent in July ©AFP/File - Desmond Kwande Motlanthe said that South Africa had tried to push Mugabe to accept the visit by Annan and Carter. "We did make attempts to speak to President Mugabe. The response from the Zimbabwe side was that he was out of town and that as soon as he returned to Harare he would come back to us. He did not come back to us" Motlanthe said. In addition to the cholera crisis, Zimbabwe faces a massive food shortage, with nearly half of the population expected to need food aid in January. Full Article at Agence France-Presse