He said WFP paid US$6.2 million for the maize bought for Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has battled severe food shortages over the past seven years after President Robert Mugabe’s government violently seized white farms for redistribution to landless blacks.
The often chaotic and violent land reforms slashed food production by 60% leaving millions of Zimbabweans to rely on food handouts from international relief agencies.
In August, the WFP appealed for US$118 million to buy food for starving Zimbabweans over the next eight months.
The food relief agency says it already had 138,000 tonnes of food but still needed another 180,000 tonnes to distribute to about three million Zimbabweans until the next harvest next April.
Source: ZimOnline
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