Govt to monitor grain prices as hunger bites

GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would enforce price controls on grain to ensure that no Zimbabwean starves as the El Niño-induced drought takes its toll.

At least 5,5 million people are said to be in need of food aid, according to humanitarian agencies.

Last month, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the drought a state of national disaster and appealed for US$2 billion to avert starvation.

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