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From The Times
June 6, 2007

Thousands ‘facing starvation’

ROME A poor harvest combined with the economic crisis will leave more than a third of Zimbabwe’s population in need of food assistance by early next year, according to the UN.

Some 2.1 million people in the country’s southern provinces will face serious food shortages by the third quarter of 2007, and the number will reach 4.1 million in the first three months of 2008, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme said. About 352,000 tonnes of cereals and 90,000 tonnes of other food aid will be needed to meet the basic needs of the population, the Rome-based agencies have calculated.

Zimbabwe’s food production problems were being “exacerbated by the country’s unprecedented economic decline, extremely high unemployment and the impact of HIV/Aids”, Amir Abdulla, of the World Food Programme, said. (AP)

i guess enough is enough with zibambwes problems of economy.i must say i felt president mugabe should have first think before he hypocritedly tried to blast the west over African"s issues on his trip to kenya during the comesa meeting yet they are the problem themselves.intrestingly,african presidents ussually do welcome him and even clap when he arrives in state meeting,this shows they are same birds in same feathers no matter what ideologies they have

henry opati lubanga, Nairobi, kenya

i guess enough is enough with zibambwes problems of economy.i must say i felt president mugabe should have first think before he hypocritedly tried to blast the west over African"s issues on his trip to kenya during the comesa meeting yet they are the problem themselves.intrestingly,african presidents ussually do welcome him and even clap when he arrives in state meeting,this shows they are same birds in same feathers no matter what ideologies they have

henry opati lubanga, Nairobi, kenya

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