Zim taps into £16,9m drought mitigation grant

ZIMBABWE has been listed as one of the beneficiaries of the Department of International Development (DFID)’s £16,9 million ($20,8 million) drought and disease mitigation grant.

In a statement on Monday, United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said Zimbabwe was among four southern African countries approaching the peak of the lean season, following the worst El-Nino-induced drought in decades.

Unicef said it received a £16,9 million grant for life-saving interventions to prevent the escalation of malnutrition and child illness or death in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

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