Hyper-inflation creates hungry nation

Austin News.Net
Friday 10th October, 2008

With inflation of at least 231 million percent a year in their country, some Zimbabweans are facing a hungry year.

Some Zimbabweans are being forced to live on wild fruit and berries.

The World Food Program has appealed for donations to help fight hunger in Zimbabwe, which is straining over economic collapse, years of food scarcity, AIDS and poor weather.

Aid agencies have only just started distributing food again, after President Robert Mugabe's government blocked food aid.

The ban was lifted in August, but it took weeks for agencies to start work again.

The U.N. estimates 45 percent of Zimbabwe's population, or 5.1 million people, will need food help by early 2009.

The food agency said its stocks would run out in January.

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