Zim donates maize meal to Malawi’s cyclone victims

ZIMBABWE has donated 300 000kg of maize meal to Malawi as part of efforts to support the country after it was heavily hit by Cyclone Freddy early this month.

Speaking yesterday at the resource mobilisation meeting at State House in Harare for Cyclone Freddy victims in Malawi, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the tropical cyclone left approximately 35 000 Malawians internally displaced, with at least 500 dead and thousands injured.

“In keeping with our enduring adage, ‘an injury to one is an injury to us all’, and the philosophy of Ubuntu/Hunhu as well as the long-standing cordial relations between our two countries, my government through ZimAid has already donated 30 000 10kg bags of maize meal,” Mnangagwa said.

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