Saturday, August 30, 2008

Food Shortages

Warning to everyone: there is food shortage in Zimbabwe. This is the first of a very vicious hunger epidemic that may happen. Now is the time to donate some food the Red Cross if you can and it is even more essential to save food.

Food shortage hits Zimbabweans

28 August 2008, 08:57

The Red Cross federation has made an urgent appeal for $26,8-million (about R202-million) in emergency food aid for about 260 000 people in Zimbabwe, in a statement released late on Wednesday.

According to the United Nations, up to 5,1-million people, almost half of Zimbabwe's population, may be without access to food by the end of 2008, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies statement. More...

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