There is no reason why we keep starving

IT is heartening at this critical point in time that we have some very close friends out there who keep remembering us and have pledged to find us the US$500 million in food aid we need to help some more than 5,5 million of our citizens avert starvation.

While the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations (UN) and their partners this week committed to helping avert hunger in the country following an El Nino-induced drought, the country should pay heed to wise counsel coming from our all-weather friends who have asked the once breadbasket of the region to get
its act together in terms of food security.

Speaking at the launch of the revised food aid appeal, WFP executive director David Beasley said: “Can Zimbabwe have a leadership which can take the country forward?

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