How is Zimbabwe responding to persistent drought-related hunger?
About seven million Zimbabweans currently face food insecurity due to a prolonged drought
Africa Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
“We didn’t harvest anything at all” – Zimbabwean resident Hlengiwe Moyo
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.
The World Food Programme, along with several nations, partnered to donate bags of maize, pulses and cooking oil. Other countries that were hardest hit include Zambia and Malawi. Namibia even resorted to slaughtering wild animals such as hippos, elephants and zebras, to feed its people. The situation became so bad that Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought crisis.
Guests: Ish Mafundikwa, Regina Vurayayi and Hlengiwe Moyo