HARARE, Zimbabwe - About half of Zimbabwe’s population faces severe hunger amid a devastating drought and economic collapse, the United Nations said Tuesday, noting a “vicious cycle of skyrocketing malnutrition that’s hitting women and children hardest.”The World Food Program said it plans to more than double the number of people it helps to more than four million. With poor rains expected before the harvest in April, the scale of hunger will worsen, the World Food Program’s executive director David Beasley said in a statement. Inflation is “skyrocketing to over 490 per cent,” according to the UN expert, Hilal Elver. Zimbabwe’s crisis includes high unemployment, cash and water shortages and electricity outages of up to 19 hours a day. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...She warned that the food crisis could spark conflict if not averted.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 13:11 UTC