Nearly 3 Million Zambians to Suffer from Foodshortages: WFP

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Nearly 3 Million Zambians to Suffer from Foodshortages: WFP

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The World Food Program (WFP) on Sunday revealed preliminary findings from the latest emergency food needs assessment, which indicate that almost three million people in Zambia will suffer from food shortages before next year's anticipated harvest season.

WFP representative to Zambia, Richard Ragan, told journalists that this scenario would inevitably present the United Nations front line agency with difficulty as it strives to provide relief food to the starving populace.

To this end, Ragan appealed for 62 million US dollars to feed 2.3 million people in 38 districts of Zambia.

He further disclosed WFP has since received a donation of 4 million dollars from the Netherlands for emergency operations in the country.

The WFP official said the Netherlands-donated funds would be used to purchase almost 10,000 tons of non-genetically modified (GM) white maize from South Africa.

He said the WFP expects the first consignment to start arrivingby mid-November.

Zambia is one of the six southern African countries, also including Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, that are facing unprecedented famine exacerbated by drought.

Earlier, the WFP said about 2.4 million people in Zambia are facing starvation and need emergency food supply until March next year, after the government rejected the GM maize offered by the USgovernment as relief food.

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