Zimbabwe: As the country’s crops fail due to drought, Bishops appeal for help vaticannews.va

Following the declaration of the 2023/2024 agricultural season as a national disaster by the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, on 2 April, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference has made a follow-up with a Pastoral Statement, highlighting that the country is faced with a devastating drought whose impact on the lives of the poor and many in rural areas will be unbearable.

This means that there is severe food insecurity in the whole country and that the government and all its stakeholders have to act to avoid starvation and deaths as a result of prolonged hunger.

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