It has become increasingly difficult for UK journalists to get information out from Zimbabwe but this morning's Telegraph carries a good report from Sue Lloyd-Roberts.

Pathetic, wizened babies lay in the arms of mothers who turned away, almost guiltily, as I approached.It's just that I can't find the food that will make my baby grow", said the mother of an 18-month-old boy who weighed just 11lb (5kg).Another child howled in pain as she sat on her mother's lap. Her skin was raw and pink as if she had been severely burned. The ward sister explained: "It is the most extreme form of kwashioka - vitamin deficiency." The child was so malnourished that she was literally losing her hair and skin.