Looming food crisis - should we intervene ?e
The World Food programme predicts that Zimbabwe faces a looming food crisis with one in four people in rural areas needing food assistance next year.
My question: Zimbabwe has re-elected Mugabe , who is the architect of the famous land reforms.
So, in my view, the people deserve the leader they elect and why should we provide aid...
Any thoughts ?
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Zimbabwe is facing a "looming food crisis" with one in four people in rural areas at risk of hunger early next year, the highest number in half a decade, the UN has warned.
The gloomy prediction was seen as a blow to analysts who have argued that Robert Mugabe's widely condemned land reform programme is starting to pay dividends.
It also illustrated the stiff economic challenge facing the 89-year-old president following his hotly disputed victory in recent elections. Memories of hyperinflation and starvation five years ago are still fresh.
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said an estimated 2.2 million people – a quarter of the rural population – are expected to need food assistance during the pre-harvest period in early 2014. This is the highest since early 2009 when more than half the population required food support.
The extent of predicted hunger was revealed in the government's own rural livelihoods report compiled with the support of the UN and other partners.
Source: Guardian
he's experimenting for long ....
You see circumstances keep changing ..... that makes his life tough ...
It's funny how he keeps getting elected as since 1980 he has run the country into the ground and gone from a net exporter of food to starvation for his people.
Mugabe has been in power longer than you and Rip Cord have been alive :O(
Well those 2 million dead people that voted for Mugabe don't eat so they'll be fine.
are merely a go betweens ... in many cases ....