• WFP launches appeal to feed half the population • People soon to drop dead on streets, says Tsvangirai Zimbabwe's official inflation rate has surged to 231m per cent as the opposition appealed to South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, to rescue the historic power-sharing deal he brokered last month with President Robert Mugabe. Hyperinflation has contributed to widespread food shortages, prompting the World Food Programme to launch an appeal yesterday to feed 5 million Zimbabweans, some of whom it said are reduced to living on wild fruits. It said more than 80% of the population was surviving on less than £1 a day, and nearly half of all Zimbabweans were chronically malnourished. The latest official inflation rate, for July, is 20 times higher than a month earlier. But independent economists who have accurately...
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