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WORLD / Africa
Over 520,000 need urgent food aid in Mozambique
(agencies)
Updated: 2007-08-10 09:53
A Mozambiquan mother tries to feed her child with a corn soya blend at a
supplementary feeding in Meringue, 2003. More than 520.000 people need
urgent food aid in Mozambique while 600,000 face famine between now and
April next year. [AFP]
MAPUTO -- More than 520,000 people need urgent food aid in Mozambique
while 600,000 face famine between now and April next year, the disaster
management agency said on Thursday.
"The food shortages resulted from the joint effects of drought, Favio
cyclone and floods which hit the country in the first quarter of 2007,
and reduced by 30 percent agricultural production in the central and
southern regions of Mozambique," the director of the National Institute
for the Management of Natural Disasters, Paulo Zucula, media reported.
The government, in conjunction with its international partners, is
currently studying the possibility of finding a national solution before
making an appeal for international assistance, Zucula said.
"We are studying the possibility of taking food from the northern region
of the country, where there is excess, to redistribute in the central and
southern regions," Territorial Administration Minister Lucas Chomera told
journalists.
"If that proves insufficient, then we would make an appeal to the
international community," he said.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food
Programme (WFP) are working with the Mozambican government to a find a
solution to the food crisis, representatives of the UN bodies in Maputo
said.
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