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Original Post Date: 2002-06-05 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 6/5/2002 2:01:28 AM
Zim: Harare is manipulating Food Supply
This article clearly indicates selective starvation is being practised in Zimbabwe. Mugabe is now actually murdering off the opposition – yet not a peep is heard from the civilised world, nor the liberals who helped him to come to power.
Jan
The WFP has also complained of government pressure to add people of its choosing to emergency food distribution lists
By James Lamont in Johannesburg
Concerns are mounting over political interference by the Zimbabwean government in the distribution of food relief to the 6 millon people facing severe food shortages in the southern African country. Physicians for Human Rights, a Danish non-governmental organisation (NGO), yesterday urged international aid agencies to monitor the distribution of food relief more closely to prevent supplies being selectively given to ruling Zanu PF supporters. The organisation fears President Robert Mugabe’s regime is exploiting hunger to suppress support for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). It claims that Zanu PF supporters, civil servants and traditional leaders are blocking MDC supporters from acquiring maize, a staple food. “It is clear that some schemes have been discriminatory for months without the donor being aware,” the Copenhagen-based group said in a report on political antagonism in Zimbabwe following presidential elections in March. Maize is distributed through government public works schemes, the state-owned Grain Marketing Board and donor programmes. But Physicians for Human Rights believes the marketing board denies grain to those people not holding Zanu PF membership and claims some public works programmes are reserved for government supporters.
Mr Mugabe has declared a state of emergency to supply food to hungry Zimbabweans. His government has made repeated assurances that, with international donor support, it will have enough food to ease the maize shortage. But it has accused farmers and traders of trying to sabotage its efforts. The country needs to import about 4m tonnes of maize over the coming year. Zimbabweans – particularly in the south-west and north – are suffering from a drought. But the government’s controversial agricultural reform programme and a shortage of foreign currency have deepened food shortages. Commercial farmers have reduced planting in response to disruptions to farming operations and uncertainty about land tenure. Both the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the US government have warned Harare against using food aid for political ends. Earlier this year the government resisted the WFP’s request to use established NGOs – such as World Vision and Christian Care – to supply emergency food aid to about 500,000 people. The WFP has also complained of government pressure to add people of its choosing to emergency food distribution lists.
Source:Financial Times (UK)