Zimbabwe keeps 2020 grain subsidies amid dire food shortage
A UN special rapporteur says up to 8-million people face ‘man-made’ starvation with 60% not getting their basic food needs met
28 November 2019 - 18:25
Harare — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government will scrap its plan to remove grain subsidies in 2020, a move it says will protect impoverished citizens from rising food prices, state media reported on Thursday.
The country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade, marked by soaring inflation and shortages of food, fuel, medicines and electricity...
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