Zimbabwe Issues Food Coupons as Maize Prices Soar
Zimbabwe has announced that it will now adopt a coupon system following growing concern that vulnerable groups are unable to access subsidised maize meal. A failing economy has forced the government to increase the price of subsidised maize meal and, in the process, dumping the burden on the less-privileged in communities.
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Zimbabwe:
Politicians Continue to Bicker While People Starve
ISS, 17 February 2020
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Coupons for Mealie-Meal On the Way
263Chat, 13 February 2020
Government is set to introduce a coupon system as a way of normalizing the roller meal situation while shielding the vulnerable from arbitrage behavior by unscrupulous dealers who… Read more »
Harare (file photo).
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Zimbabwe:
Roller Meal Coupon System Adopted
The Herald, 13 February 2020
Coupons will be issued within a week to targeted households to buy subsidised roller meal, with the database of beneficiaries at an advanced stage, a Cabinet minister has said. Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
A Humanitarian Response for the Crisis in Zimbabwe
IPS, 6 February 2020
In November 2019, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food described Zimbabwe - a country once hailed as the bread basket of Africa - as a state on the brink of man-made… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
The Barren Land Desperately Needs Rain
Zimbabwe Independent, 7 February 2020
NOTHING can transform a desert into a wetland, except rain. Changing an arid political and economic landscape requires the will, commitment and determination from those carrying… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Govt Scales Up Maize Imports From South Africa
The Herald, 3 February 2020
Zimbabwe last week imported 16 210 tonnes of grain leaving South Africa with tighter stocks, according to Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Humanitarian Crisis Reaches Breaking Point
Zimbabwe Independent, 24 January 2020
Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels with thousands of children in the country facing disease and death due to acute malnutrition. A recent report by the… Read more »
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