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'National crisis' grips country struck by economic collapse, AIDS, drought In this photo from the World Food Programme, food is mounted on a donkey, in Musita in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, this month Thursday. The U.N. food aid agency said that the government had blocked it from reaching the countryside for months, but that it then found Zimbabweans reduced to eating wild fruits. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Some rural Zimbabweans facing one of the hungriest years they could remember have been forced to live on a meal a day and in some cases only on wild fruits, the U.N. food aid agency said Thursday. The World Food Program appealed for donations to help fight hunger in Zimbabwe, straining as an economic collapse, years of food scarcity, AIDS and poor weather have combined to put it in a category all its own in a region... [read full story]
