HIGHLIGHTS

• Food assistance programmes in direct response to the deteriorating food security situation have begun but face funding shortfalls.

• Government has availed $2 million for animal feed and veterinary medicines, which will alleviate the impact of drought on livestock.

• Typhoid, dysentery and diarrhea vex the country.

• Rwandan refugees reluctant to return home despite cessation clause....

HIGHLIGHTS

• Rural people in need of food assistance in the 2012/13 peak hunger season have increased by 60 per cent compared to 2011/12.

• Two provinces are already in the crisis food insecurity phase.

• Partners are concerned at the high number of child rape survivors reported in July.

• Fresh typhoid outbreak erupts in Chitungwiza.

Zimbabwe’s Food Security Deteriorating

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