The UN and Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday launched an urgent appeal for $234 million for more than five million people in urgent need of food due to a drought and a weak economy.
The appeal came as UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Mark Lowcock visited the country this week to get a firsthand account of the situation.
“In areas across the country, there are acute shortages of essential medicines, and rising food insecurity has heightened the risk of gender-based violence, particularly for women and girls,” it said.stated that around 7.5 million people in both rural and urban areas will require food aid between February 2019 and March 2010.
Lowcock had earlier held talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ministers of foreign affairs and finance. In January protests erupted nationwide in Zimbabwe after the president announced that fuel prices would double in a country already suffering soaring living costs and regular shortages of basic commodities.
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