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The UN World Food Programme said that it was working with Zimbabwe’s government and aid agencies to provide food to 2.7 million rural people in the country as the El Nino weather phenomenon contributes to a drought crisis in southern Africa.
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was procuring food assistance for 4.1 million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the population in a country where shortages are being exacerbated by runaway inflation and climate-induced drought.
The 2019 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee consisting of government, UN development partners and NGOs has completed a rural livelihoods assessment, which estimates that 5.5 million people in that country are food insecure.
By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | The US government, through its Harare embassy, has applauded a new study by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) into politicised food aid and farming inputs distribution. The commission on Wednesday launched its report and nailed Zanu PF and top government officials over the partisan distribution of the […]
President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party has prevented opposition supporters receiving emergency food aid in Zimbabwe, a rights body said Wednesday, as the country reels under severe shortages. A drought across southern Africa has pitched Zimbabwe further into economic crisis, with public anger over lack of food helping to fuel a series of recent protests against […]
A Zanu-PF official in Mashonaland Central has reportedly told an opposition MDC-T supporter that “never in your lifetime” will he get food aid. Four opposition activists were arrested in similar conflict in Buhera. Last Saturday, March 12, 2016, names were being compiled for food aid beneficiaries in Ward 3 of Mbire in Mashonaland Central when […]
HARARE – The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace (FFP) has provided an additional $10 million to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP).