A third of Zimbabweans will need food aid-groups | Reuters

A third of Zimbabweans will need food aid-groups | Reuters: "HARARE, June 5 (Reuters) - More than a third of Zimbabweans will need food aid by early 2008 after a poor harvest this year, leading international aid organisations said on Tuesday.

A joint U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) report said crop failures in southern provinces and rising poverty would see about 2.1 million people facing serious food shortages by the third quarter of this year.

The number would grow to 4.1 million in the first three months of 2008, which is a third of Zimbabwe's estimated 12 million people." Read complete post here.