Homes, food reserves, livestock and crops were damaged or destroyed by the storms, which are unusual at this time of the year. More than 9,000 people need urgent assistance.

The Zimbabwean government is worried by the high malnutrition-related death rate which currently accounts for 25 percent of deaths among children under the age of five, said President Robert Mugabe at the launch of The Zimbabwe Food and Nutrition Security Policy in Harare yesterday.

Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 ‘minimal’ or phase 2 ‘stressed’ conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.

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Comoros: Flash Flooding

On Grande Comore island, heavy rains between 30 April and 1 May caused some rivers to overflow. An estimated 172 families were affected, of which 82 families had to stay with community members. Some affected people have already started returning to their homes. Government, with support from partners, is assisting those affected. A request for international assistance is not expected.

Mozambique: Early Recovery Strategy

KEY MESSAGES

WASHINGTON DC — In 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Zimbabwe Agricultural Income and Employment Development programme (ZIM-AIED) aimed at increasing the incomes of rural households in Zimbabwe through commercialization of small-scale farming.

The program was also designed to generate new employment in agriculture and increasing the production of both food and cash crops.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Political tensions and intolerance remained heightened across the country in the early days of December 2012 dropping significantly in the last two weeks of December when the festive spirit gripped the nation as the Christmas and New Year holidays beckoned. The major sources of conflict in December 2012 were the partisan distribution of agricultural inputs and food under the Presidential inputs scheme which spilled over from November and political parties’ preparations for decisive general elections- which were then rumoured to be slated for early 2013.