Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan refused entry visas to Zimbabwe

The former United States president Jimmy Carter said today that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the country.

Carter and two other members of The Elders group, the former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and the human rights advocate Graca Machel, who is married to Nelson Mandela, had planned to assess the country's humanitarian needs as Zimbabweans face disease and hunger while the political crisis occupies its politicians.

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