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| United Nations cuts aid to Zimbabweans |
| 2008-11-11 |
| THE United Nations food aid agency has cut the amount of food it hands out to hungry Zimbabweans as it lacks the cash to keep up with the worsening crisis, it said on Tuesday. The World Food Programme (WFP) fed 2 million people in October, the first month of a large-scale aid project. That will double this month and rise to 5.1 million - almost half the population - by early 2009. "There is currently no food in the pipeline for distributions in January and February - just when the crisis is reaching its peak," the agency said in a statement in which it called for $140 million in additional funds to secure its Zimbabwe operations until the end of March. A harvest the WFP described as "disastrous" has pushed millions of people into hunger. WFP said it had cut cereal rations per person to 10kg per month from 12kg and cut the pulse ration to 1kg from 1.8kg. Zimbabwe has been grappling with food shortages since 2001. Opponents of President Robert Mugabe say his policy of forcing white farmers off their land has exacerbated the problem in a country where hyper-inflation has crippled the economy. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 TU, Farmin B. Hard would do well if he were allowed to actually FARM, but Mugabe doesn't want any white to actually succeed in his country. Too bad there's going to be an epidemic or three over the next several months as his people begin to starve, all due to Bob's actions. Unfortunately, Zim-bob-we hasn't hit bottom yet, but they're not far off. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-11-11 15:33 |
| #2 Oh noes! If only zimBobwe had a large functioning farm industry!... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-11-11 12:56 |
| #1 Let Bob and Farmin B. Hard handle it. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-11 12:07 |