Zimbabwe needs about $1.6 billion in aid to combat starvation amid a severe drought that has left three million people hungry, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa told a news conference on Tuesday.

He made the request just days after President Robert Mugabe declared a state of disaster in the Zimbabwe’s rural areas, where more than a quarter of the population is in need of food, according to Reuters.

Officials say the aid will help pay for 1.4 million tons of grain imports, irrigation infrastructure and nutrition programs for children. However, aid programs to the country have historically been beset by rampant abuses and corruption.


Once known as the continent’s breadbasket, Zimbabwe’s agricultural output has been decimated by appalling land management programs that have seen once productive commercial farms broken up into struggling smallholdings. Weather patterns related to El Nino have led to meager rainfall across the region, according to the U.N.’s World Food Programme.

Source : http://time.com/4215134/zimbabwe-food-aid-hunger/

Once Again, Mugabe ( The pride of Nairalanders ) has failed Zimbabwe.

They are now begging for money to buy grains..

And dat old fool is busy flaunting himself as a tyrant president. His wives and bed warmers are busy shoping in dubai every 2 days. God help dem

He (mumu-gabe) drove white farmers from the country because of his senseless racist views. Now the people who lives in the rural areas of that country are suffering,a fool at 91 is a fool forever.

Mugabe just wait for Donald trump and u get d money in Guantanamo bay jail facility. Remember ur friend in naija egberipapa goodluck Jonathan.

I wouldn't be surprised if they blame the whites and British. Anybody and everybody is responsible as long as it's not me mentality is what Mugabe suffers from.

raayah:
Once Again, Mugabe ( The pride of Nairalanders ) has failed Zimbabwe.

They are now begging for money to buy grains..

Pride of Nairalanders? Really? There are nairalanders that support him?