Zimbabwe: Poor Zimbabweans to Get 7.5kg of Maize Per Month As Hunger Stalks Millions

OVER six million food insecure Zimbabweans are set to benefit from a government scheme that will see them getting between 7.5kg and 8.5kg bags of maize meal each per month up to March next year, to avert hunger.

Beneficiaries of the programme will mostly be from the country’s rural areas which were hard hit by an El Nino induced drought and recorded poor to no harvests.

Already reeling from a never ending economic crisis characterised by astronomical unemployment rates, some 9.9 million…