Bungwe la World Food Programme lalengeza kuti likufuna kuchulukitsa kuwirikiza kawiri chiwerengero cha anthu omwe amathandizira Zimbabwe oposa 4 miliyoni. Anthu opitilira 7 miliyoni akufunika.

"Tili m'kati mwa vuto la kusowa kwa zakudya m'thupi komwe kukuvutitsa kwambiri amayi ndi ana ndipo zikhala zovuta kuthetsa," adatero Mtsogoleri wamkulu wa WFP David Beasley. "Poyerekeza ndi mvula yosaukanso pokonzekera kukolola kwakukulu mu Epulo, njala m'dziko muno iyamba kukulirakulira zisanakhale bwino."

Malinga ndi UN, pafupifupi theka la anthu a ku Zimbabwe akukumana ndi njala yayikulu pakati pa chilala komanso kugwa kwachuma.

Mavuto azachuma ku Zimbabwe, omwe ali oipitsitsa kwambiri m'zaka khumi, komanso chilala kumwera kwa Africa chidzasokoneza kutumiza thandizo chifukwa mitengo ya zinthu zofunika ikukwera komanso chakudya chikutsika kuposa masiku onse, malinga ndi UN.

ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:

Zimbabwe's economic crisis, the worst in a decade, and a drought across southern Africa will complicate aid delivery as prices for basic items soar and food supplies are lower than normal, according to the UN.
“With poor rains forecast yet again in the run-up to the main harvest in April, the scale of hunger in the country is going to get worse before it gets better.
The World Food Program announced plans to more than double the number of people it helps in Zimbabwe to more than 4 million.