Zimbabwe: Starvation On Our Doorsteps

analysis

When Elephants Fight It is Usually the Grass That Suffers. True to This Old Swahili Saying As the rumble and scuffle to gain political space intensifies ahead of make-or-break national elections intimated for this year, the major political actors in the Zimbabwe crisis -- ZANU-PF and the MDC-T -- are expending all their energies on outdoing each other politically, resulting in critical government business being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

One such important issue that is not being pursued with the vigour and urgency it deserves is the poor crop situation in most parts of the country which requires all the actors in the inclusive government to close ranks and put in place contingency measures to mobilise grain from the region, including food aid, and channel it to areas ravaged by the poor rains in order to avert hunger and starvation.

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