ernment, which all along had strenuously denied Zimbabwe faced severe food shortages, secretly signed the agreement with the WFP recently, in a move apparently spearheaded by Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono as the GMB’s strategic reserves dwindled to nothing.
The government said international and local non-governmental agencies wanted to use the food aid to campaign for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, but observers say it is the government itself that has always used such aid to buy the support of rural people and once again wanted to cash in on the international food aid.
20.9.2007
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Govt in secret pact with WFP
HARARE - In a dramatic climb down, the broke Zimbabwe government has acceded to mounting pressure from international donors to allow the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to mobilize and distribute urgent food aid worth US$60 million to more than 500,000 starving Zimbabweans.
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