Zimbabwe’s government has said that the country has grain reserves that can only last for a month as its food crisis deepens.
The Southern African country is facing one of the worst droughts in decades and can barely recover from the crisis.
According to the government its strategic grain reserves have dwindled to 100,000 tonnes.
Local but private importers say they are hopeful of an improvement in the coming days ahead of grain arrival from South Africa and Brazil.
In November 2019, the United Nations has said that millions of Zimbabweans were struggling to access food.
Hilal Elver, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food who disclosed this said at the time that “The people of Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suffering a man-made starvation.”
Elver made the statement in Harare after after a 10-day visit to the country.
In a statement she said that 60% of the country’s 14 million people were not getting enough food to meet their basic needs.
“Many of the people I spoke to in Harare told me that they could only afford one meal a day,” she added.
The United Nations said that most of those without food are close to starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) in August launched a $331m appeal to help the country.
Zimbabwe is currently battling the effects of drought, a cyclone and an economic crisis.
Source: Africafeeds.com
