Zimbabweans go hungry as coronavirus lockdown deepens food crisis
Many families are surviving on one meal a day
18 May 2020 - 18:05
Harare — Rosemary Pamire struggled to feed her family well before Zimbabwe entered lockdown in March to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Now she can hardly put together a meal a day as the country faces a deepening food crisis.
Sitting on a bed in her two-room lodgings in Harare's poor Mbare township, Pamire said she had exhausted the little food she had stocked up during the first 21 days of an extended seven-week lockdown...
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