Al Jazeera: Zimbabwe pleads for cash to stop mass starvation
Harare seeking $1.5bn to help save more than a quarter of the population from starving to death, as drought worsens.
Zimbabwe has appealed to local businesses and charities for more than $1.5bn aid to save more than a quarter of the population from starvation due to drought.
"The government of Zimbabwe requires a total of [$1.57bn] with effect from February to December 2016," Zimbabwe's vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa said at a news conference in the capital Harare on Tuesday, adding that more than three million people were in need of food and water.
"The amount of rainfall received to date is inadequate to meet basic household consumption needs as well as support for livelihoods, agriculture and wildlife."
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Update #1: Zimbabwe Appeals for Funding to Avert Food Shortages (VOA)
Update #2: Zimbabwe: Mugabe urged to invest in agriculture to feed 2.5m starving people due to El Nino -- IBTimes
WNU Editor: And to think that Zimbabwe was once regarded as the "Bread Basket" of Africa.
2 comments:
It was Africa's bread basket when the whites were in charge of the country.
"It was Africa's bread basket when the whites were in charge of the country."
And?
You have to consider alternate histories, psychology, sociology and run some Monte Carlo simulations.
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