As the UN marks World Food Day, more than 2 million people face hunger in Zimbabwe. The world body says it is working with the southern African nation to ensure that its food insecurity becomes a thing of the past.
The children may be able to recite a poem for visitors at Jotsholo Primary School some 700 kilometers (434 miles) from the Zimbabwean capital Harare, but this is still the region worst affected by the country's food crisis. Most of the 2.2 million Zimbabweans who depend on food aid live here. It has been like this for more than a decade.
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