food shortages

About 8 million (60 %) of the Zimbabwean population is facing serious food shortages by December due to continued droughts in the country and COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted the informal sector.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe's currency was under attack from businesses that were constantly increasing prices and this was part of a wider political plot against his government.
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Tanzania said on Friday it had begun the first shipments of maize to Zimbabwe after an El Nino-induced drought wilted crops and triggered food shortages in the southern African nation.
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The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare is crumbling at the seams, assailed by overcrowding and a critical shortage of medicines, food and other basics as the economically-crippled country battles to care for its inmates.
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The supply of basic goods is expected to increase towards the festive season, spurred by Government intervention through the indefinite suspension of Statutory Instrument (SI) 122 of 2017, and the provision of foreign currency by the…
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Most boarding schools in the country are at the verge of shutting down early due to food shortages amid current price hikes.
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A deepening unease is settling over Zimbabwe as the country's fragile local currency loses value at an alarming speed, prices soar, local and foreign businesses close their doors, and people wonder whether their savings are about to be…
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Mwenezi – Food shortages are said to have ravaged Mwenezi so much that many teenagers have turned to commercial sex at Neshuro, Sarahuro and Rutenga where they are being paid 50 cents for an act. Families in the district have also…
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This week SW Radio Africa focuses on the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, and the violent political campaigns he has led in his Headlands constituency and other parts of the country. As a former Minister…
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe does not have the money to transport food aid to areas experiencing acute shortages, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said on Monday.
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