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Original Post Date: 2002-06-12 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 6/12/2002 1:35:32 PM
USA Offers Extra Food to South Africa
“The economic polices that he is pursuing are collapsing agriculture production in areas where there was rainfall. Mugabe’s not even giving the land to the poor but to his cronies”
Rome – The United States said Tuesday it would provide a third of the 1.2 million tons of food aid needed to stave off famine in southern Africa, a crisis it said was being exacerbated by Zimbabwe’s policies. Andrew Natsios, the head of USAID, the US foreign aid agency, said the United States was contributing an extra 275,000 tons of wheat to the U.N. emergency relief effort for six African countries, bringing its total to 400,000 tons. However, he told a press conference on the sidelines of the UN World Food Summit that the problem in Zimbabwe, one of the six affected countries, wasn’t so much about food as it was food distribution. Natsios said he was concerned by reports that President Robert Mugabe’s government was preventing food aid from getting to opposition strongholds. “We’ve even heard of children whose parents are suspected of supporting the opposition being turned away from feeding lines at schools,” he said. Zimbabwe’s opposition has accused the government of withholding food aid from its supporters even as the country is experiencing a major food crisis.
The World Food Program says half the estimated 12.8 million people at risk of starvation in southern Africa are in Zimbabwe. Mugabe’s government has denied the opposition’s allegations, but independent aid workers and human rights groups have raised concern over unfair distribution and interference in relief programs by officials and ruling party militants. The head of the World Food Program, James Morris, said Tuesday he had raised the issue with Mugabe in a meeting Monday, and had received assurances aid would get through. “He assured me he would tell the world that there would be no political favoritism or disincentives for allowing us to do our work,” Morris told a news conference. He said, however, that Zimbabwe’s land grab program had complicated relief efforts and contributed to the hunger problem. He cited a 55 percent to 60 percent decrease in commercial agricultural productivity this year over previous ones. “So it’s a major factor,” Morris said.
Mugabe’s government has embarked on a campaign to confiscate 95 percent of land owned by the nation’s 4,000 white farmers and redistribute it to landless blacks. But since it began in 2000, the program has helped drive hundreds of white farmers and tens of thousands of their black workers off the land. Natsios dismissed Mugabe’s defense of the program in his speech to the food summit Monday. “The economic polices that he (Mugabe) is pursuing are collapsing agriculture production in areas where there was rainfall,” Natsios said. Natsios said he didn’t oppose the principle of land redistribution in Zimbabwe – where some 4,000 white farmers own a third of the nation’s land – just the way it was being carried out. “Mugabe’s not even giving the land to the poor but to his cronies,” Natsios said.
Source:Associated Press
published:Tue 11-Jun-2002