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11 Jun 2002

Zambia
WFP food aid target for Zambian HIV/AIDS victims

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Shapi Shacinda

LUSAKA, June 11 (Reuters) - Victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic are among 2.5 million Zambians targeted for food relief starting next month, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

WFP country representative for Zambia Richard Ragan told Reuters by telephone from Johannesburg that 200,000 tonnes of food would be distributed between July 1 and end-March 2003.

The WFP and other aid organisations met donors in Johannesburg last week to tackle the worst food shortage for a decade in six southern African nations.

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31 May 2002

Zambia
Zambia government declares national disaster

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— World Vision
By Alfred Chirwa, World Vision Zambia communications
The government of Zambia has finally declared the last farming season a National Disaster because of drought, which is affecting most parts of Zambia.

Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa, last night in a radio and television address to the nation on the food security in Zambia also appealed to the international community to help bail the country out of the crisis.

Mr. Mwanawasa said the help from the international community could be in form of finance, food and otherwise.

The president highlighted that Zambia's

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30 May 2002

Zambia
Zambia declares food disaster as food stock runs dry

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— Deutsche Presse Agentur
Lusaka (dpa) - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has declared a national food disaster, saying around four million people in this southern African country faced severe hunger and famine.

Speaking on state television late Wednesday, Mwanawasa said the country's food stocks would run out in 90 days' time because reserves had been completely depleted.

''Stocks are expected to be depleted in July or August and the current food stocks can only cater for six million people,'' said Mwanawasa.

Declaring a national food disaster, Mwanawasa

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28 May 2002

Zambia
Zambian government bans maize exports: official

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— Agence France-Presse
LUSAKA, May 28 (AFP) - The Zambian government has banned with immediate effect the exportation of maize, the country's staple food, due to the current food shortages caused by famine, an official said Tuesday.

"Exports of maize have been banned until the food situation gets back to normal," Agriculture Minister Mundia Sikatana told AFP.

About 1.2 million Zambians out of a population of 10 million are living in starvation after their crop was either washed away by floods or scorched by an unrelenting drought that hit the southern country last year.

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27 May 2002

Zambia
Many Zambians to run out of food by next month: report

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— Agence France-Presse
LUSAKA, May 27 (AFP) - Many Zambian families will run out of food next month if no emergency relief aid is received within days in this famine-hit country, humanitarian organisation CARE International warned Monday.

"It is vital that government, non-governmental organisations and UN agencies like the World Food Programme begin a food-crisis-relief effort to avert widespread hunger," CARE said in a report.

The organisation conducted a crop and

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21 May 2002

Malawi + 4 others
Southern Africa food crisis deepens, aid gathers

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Allan Seccombe

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A massive food relief mission is gathering steam to combat southern Africa's worst food shortage in a decade as millions go hungry and famine looms after crop failures, the United Nations food aid arm said.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is assessing aid for six southern African states, three of which are in urgent need of food. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are seen as critical while Lesotho, Mozambiqe and Swaziland can wait before food arrives.

The WFP is already feeding 2.6 million people in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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21 May 2002

Lesotho + 5 others
Southern Africa: Famine-struck SADC countries seek regional solutions to crisis

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— Agence France-Presse
MBABANE, May 21 (AFP) - Famine-struck Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries meeting on Tuesday resolved to find regional solutions to the severe food crisis in their 14 countries.

SADC members need about 3.22 million tonnes of food for millions of people, particularly in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

"Millions of our people are going to bed on empty stomachs and as leaders we should come up with a regional policy which would help address (this)," said Swazi Acting Prime Minister,

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21 May 2002

Zambia
CARE report describes effects of drought/food crisis in Zambia

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— CARE
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"A short-term relief effort is required to avert widespread hunger."
ATLANTA (May 21, 2002) - Drought conditions in Zambia have left families with widespread crop damage and prospects of hunger and malnutrition, according to a report released today by the international humanitarian organization CARE.

The report, based on a survey conducted in six districts in Southern and Western Zambia, notes that eight out of 10 farmers reported maize crop failure in the range of 76-100 percent of anticipated yields. Over 80 percent of households reported their maize

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20 May 2002

Lesotho + 5 others
Food shortages in Southern Africa set to worsen

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— World Vision
by Robert Michel - Communications Director Southern Africa
Hunger is biting deeper and deeper throughout most of the Southern Africa region. Following years of insufficient harvests due to a combination of droughts, floods, and political events, the shortage of food has created a serious famine situation. It is estimated that at least 11 million people will need to receive food aid in the next 6 months. It is clear that the amount of food available locally and in the donors' pipelines is far from being sufficient to ensure that all the people in
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20 May 2002

Afghanistan + 6 others
Funding shortages undermine key WFP operations, warns Executive Director

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— World Food Programme
Rome - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme James T.Morris said on Monday that severe funding shortages are threatening two of the Agency's largest emergency operations, in Afghanistan and North Korea.
Addressing WFP's Executive Board in Rome for the first time since his appointment, Mr. Morris warned that the Agency's Afghan reconstruction programme has a 46 percent shortfall, while lack of donations for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea this month stopped WFP feeding one million people.

"We are extremely concerned that

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20 May 2002

Botswana + 8 others
Southern Africa: Zimbabwe tops list of poor harvests

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— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 20 May (IRIN) - All of Zimbabwe's rain-fed crops have failed and the country only has a quarter of the food it will need for the next 12 months.
"I have never seen the country so dry and it is supposed to be end of the rainy season. I can't imagine what it will look like after the traditional dry season," UN Development Programme (UNDP) resident co-ordinator for Zimbabwe Victor Angelo told IRIN.

Angelo had just returned from chairing a weekend meeting of regional UNDP country coordinators where the grim

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18 May 2002

Zimbabwe + 5 others
UN officials fear twin tragedy of famine, AIDS in southern Africa

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— Agence France-Presse
VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe, May 18 (AFP) - The AIDS crisis in southern Africa, which has suffered more from the disease than anywhere else in the world, could take a dramatic toll as the region slips toward famine, UN officials said Saturday.

"One can expect the death toll for cases of HIV/AIDS will rise because of the lack of food," said Victor Angelo, the UN resident coordinator for Zimbabwe.

"If you are HIV positive and your intake of protein goes down," your body becomes more susceptible to the illness, he said.

UN officials based in southern African

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17 May 2002

Zambia
Caritas Internationalis reaches out to drought-afflicted Zambia

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— Caritas
Vatican City - Caritas Internationalis has launched a one million USD appeal to help member organisation Caritas Zambia (Catholic Commission for Development) assist people in drought and hunger-afflicted dioceses throughout the country.
Low rainfall and the lack of affordable agricultural inputs for small-scale farmers have contributed to sharp declines in maize yields, Zambia's staple crop, and seriously compromised household food security.

Reports indicate that food shortages affect more than half the country's population and that malnutrition rates

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17 May 2002

Zambia
Zambia needs about 150,000 metric tonnes of food: WFP report

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— Agence France-Presse
LUSAKA, May 17 (AFP) - Zambia needs about 150,000 metric tonnes of food to feed more than 1.2 million starving people, a World Food Programme (WFP) official said Friday, quoting the organisation's latest assessment report.

"The preliminary food assessment report in Zambia indicates that the country needs about 150,000 metric tonnes of food to meet the deficit caused by drought," said David Rhody, a WFP emergency co-ordinator in Zambia.

The WFP office in Zambia had initially said Zambia needed about 42,000 metric tonnes of food to feed the starving people.

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17 May 2002

Afghanistan + 24 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 20 of 2002

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— World Food Programme
This report includes:
(A) Asia Region: (1) DPR Korea

(B) West and Central Asia Region: (1) Afghanistan, (2) Pakistan, (3) Iran

(C) East and Southern Africa Region: (1) Malawi, (2) Lesotho, (3) Swaziland, (5) Zambia, (6) Zimbabwe, (7) Somalia, (8) Tanzania, (9) Rwanda

(D) West Africa Region: (1) Liberia, (2) Guinea, (3) Sierra Leone, (4) Côte d'Ivoire

(E) Central Africa Region: (1) Republic of Congo, (2) Angola

(F) Latin America and Caribbean Region: (1) Cuba, (2) Ecuador, (3) Guatemala, (4) Costa Rica, (5) Panama, (6) Paraguay

From Francesco Strippoli, Director of

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16 May 2002

Afghanistan + 7 others
Food outlook generally favourable, but 34 states face shortages

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— Agence France-Presse
ROME, May 16 (AFP) - Thirty-four countries face severe food shortages this year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation announced Thursday in its first forecast of global cereal production in 2002.

The announcement, part of the UN agency's global information and early warning reports on crops, comes against the backdrop of what it called "a generally favourable food outlook" globally.

It said cereal production, the barometer of global food stocks, would remain below the expected consumption, meaning stocks would have to be drawn down for the fourth consecutive year.

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16 May 2002

Malawi + 2 others
Southern Africa food insecurity disproportionately impacting women and children

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— UN Children's Fund
NAIROBI, 16 May 2002 - The United Nations Children's Fund has warned that the unfolding food crisis in southern Africa threatens to become a major humanitarian catastrophe if an immediate and adequate response is not mounted.
"In a region already bearing the full brunt of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the food crisis presents a new and ominous threat to the survival of the most vulnerable - the children and women," said Urban Jonsson, UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa. "A rapid assessment of nutritional status undertaken

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