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/ 12 March 2006

Zimbabwean villagers reel under food shortages

Chipo Mapako, a village head in the eastern Zimbabwean district of Nyanga, does not remember when he last had a square meal. ”The daily struggle for us is to find enough food to stave off hunger,” says Mapako, who heads a village in the district renowned as much for its picturesque mountain ranges as for its dry, stony fields.