Zimbabwe Imports Corn as Catastrophic Hunger Looms

  • Government looking at subsidies for cooking oil, salt, bread
  • Over half the population goes to bed hungry after drought

Drought withered crops last year and threatens do do the same in 2020.

Photographer: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images

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Facing catastrophic hunger, Zimbabwe will import corn from Mexico, Ukraine and neighboring South Africa to help feed as many as eight million of its citizens -- over half the population -- after drought withered crops last year and threatens do do the same in 2020.