World Food Programme rolls out food aid

THE World Food Programme (WFP) says it will soon be rolling out a programme to feed villagers facing starvation in Zimbabwe’s drought-hit areas like Masvingo, Matabeleland North and South.Report by Sheryleen Masuku, Own Correspondent

The United Nations agency said it would provide funding for cereals to be purchased from the local market.

WFP and other local civil society organisations have termed the current food-insecurity shortages in the country “a crisis” and the partners “were set to introduce food assistance programmes in the country following growing concerns of severe food shortages in some parts of the country”.

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