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WFP says more than 1 mln Zimbabweans need food aid

22 Nov 2011
More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said despite recent improvements in the country's grain production. The southern African country has struggled to feed itself since 2000, when President Robert Mugabe began a drive to seize white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks, leading to a sharp fall in agricultural output.

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