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Political violence hinders UNICEF's ongoing work in Zimbabwe which is turning to emergency work helping more than 25,000 in the last two weeks. UNICEF Zimbabwe Chief of Communication James Elder discusses the effect of post-election violence on children.

"We are seeing a very, very worrying wave of violence if you will -- it doesn't seem now centred on any area -- it seems almost across the country -- thousands of people being displaced -- people having their homes burned -- children either watching their homes burned and livestock killed -- or worse if that's possible -- themselves being beaten or attacked in some way.

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Just earlier this week as one little boy of about ten told me, he doesn't know who the opposition is, he didn't who any of the people were that were attacking his family because of this political situation, who watched as he lost the two pieces of livestock that they had, watched as his uncle was beaten and he was obviously petrified during this and then fled, has left school, has left everything that they possibly owned, is now in a very foreign environment with a lot of people. This kind of situation is just repeated time and time again across the country at the moment."