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Aid agencies fear catastrophe in Zimbabwe
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THE foreign aid agencies have yet to reach Chadereka, a sleepy
village deep in the Zambezi valley, so the pangs of hunger are
starting to bite hard. As throughout Zimbabwe, maize meal is the
staple food, but this year neither God nor President Robert Mugabe
have provided.
"We should be eating twice, maybe three times a day," said Dzidzai
Musinyare, a 22-year-old mother of four . "Now it is barely once."
Last week Musinyare went to the government grain store, 60
kilometres away,...
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