Today, Africa Daily’s Mpho Lakaje focuses on Zimbabwe, one of several southern African countries recently hit by a prolonged drought. Seven million people are now desperate for food assistance.

People always come complaining of hunger, and I would give them food from my family reserves,” he says. Food insecurity is a trend that cuts across the country, but especially in rural Zimbabwe.

The World Food Programme has categorised the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe as “dire”. Similar situations exist in neighbouring Angola, Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique. Hunger ...

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HARARE, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- As Zimbabwe grapples with one of its worst El Nino-induced droughts in decades, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has stepped up food aid distribution in the ...