Zimbabwe: Nine More Die As Food Crisis Deepens

Nine more people died in Bulawayo last month due to hunger amid reports that an estimated 22 of the 58 districts in Zimbabwe have dwindling food supplies. Bulawayo Executive Mayor, Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube, told The Standard those who died were mostly children under the age of five, some elderly men and women aged above 60 years. He said the deaths resulting from malnutrition were a weekly occurrence.