{"id":177436,"date":"2024-07-28T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mps-demand-ministerial-statement-over-unfair-distribution-of-food-aid-deserving-households-starving\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T06:46:10","slug":"zimbabwe-mps-demand-ministerial-statement-over-unfair-distribution-of-food-aid-deserving-households-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mps-demand-ministerial-statement-over-unfair-distribution-of-food-aid-deserving-households-starving\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MPs Demand Ministerial Statement Over &#8216;Unfair&#8217; Distribution of Food Aid &#8211; Deserving Households Starving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have demanded a fair distribution of food aid in their respective constituencies as some deserving households are reportedly being sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Hunger has been caused by a poor harvest in most parts of the country due to the El Nino induced drought that hit the region especially Zimbabwe, where over 9 million people need food aid to survive until the next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the the drought situation a national disaster calling for assistance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407270008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have demanded a fair distribution of food aid in their respective constituencies as some deserving households are reportedly being sidelined. Hunger has been caused by a poor harvest in most parts of the country due to the El Nino induced drought that hit the region especially Zimbabwe, where over 9 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7828,7617,32452,7474,5074,29927,14185,7260,257,254,21806,6065,15329,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-demand","tag-deserving","tag-distribution","tag-food","tag-households","tag-ministerial","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starving","tag-statement","tag-unfair","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}