OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.15pm.
THE Southern African Develpment Community has warned that at least 200 people are dying of hunger each day in Angola, where fighting has disrupted farming activities.
“An escalation in civil strife has made an already precarious food situation even worse,” the SADC said in a report released this week.
“The civil war has displaced an estimated 2-million people (a sixth of the population), and 200 die each day from starvation,” said the SADC’s Early Warning Unit, based in Harare.
Warning of a “growing humanitarian crisis,” the report deplored an increased use of land mines and growing violence against civilians.
In recent months, fighting has intensified along the southern border with Namibia since that country agreed to let the Angolan army launch attacks on Unita rebels from its territory.
Some 170000 Angolans have crossed the eastern border into Zambia, while more than 7000 have fled to Namibia. — AFP