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Current Feed ContentZIMBABWE: Food security forecast to worsenA combination of post electionturmoil and arid weather conditions are presenting a bleak scenario for foodsecurity in Zimbabwe. The UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) saidin a statement on 10 April that "extreme dry weather in several provincesof Zimbabweis likely to cause serious damage to the main 2008 maize harvest. This couldaggravate an already precarious food security situation in the country." The new year ushered in widespread flooding in lowlying areas, FAO said, and this...ZIMBABWE: Food stockpiling as people fear the 'Kenya syndrome'Post-election violence in Kenya is creating pre-election nervousness among Zimbabwe's voters ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections in March, and people are beginning to stockpile food in the event of any possible unrest. Donald Dombo, a government employee, said he saw most of his "colleagues in the civil service starting to hoard food and firewood in their homes in case the Kenyan syndrome of violence spreads to Zimbabwe after the elections". He told IRIN that, "I am planning to... |
