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UN seeks $131m aid for Zimbabwe
NewsDay Staff ·
ZIMBABWE will require at least $131 million in aid this year, the bulk for food assistance after a failed farming season left nearly 1,7 million facing hunger, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
Report by Reuters/VOA
The southern African country, once a regional breadbasket, has struggled to feed itself since 2000 when President Robert Mugabe began a drive to seize white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks.
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