INTRODUCTION SUDAN NAMIBIA MAURITANIA MADAGASCAR MALI MALAWI LIBERIA GUINEA-BISSAU KENYA IVORY COAST ETHIOPIA GUINEA GUINEA DJIBOUTI ERITREA CHAD DEMOCRATIC REP. OF CONGO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CAMEROON BURUNDI BURUNDI BURKINA FASO BENIN ANGOLA SENEGAL NIGER RWANDA RWANDA SOMALIA REPUBLIC OF CONGO TOGO SIERRA LEONE LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE SWAZILAND ZIMBABWE ZAMBIA TANZANIA UGANDA

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ZIMBABWE

Estimated population: 13.01m

Projected number needing food aid: 4.3m

Key underlying reasons:

  • Economic crisis
  • Aids: about 21% infected with HIV
  • Rural overcrowding
  • Policy of evictions from cities to countryside

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Pius Ncube, Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo: "They [the government] want total political control - they want to peasantify people like Pol Pot - force them into the country so they can control them."

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