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UN warns 5m Zimbabweans will face hunger by next year

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The United Nations warned yesterday that more than 5 million Zimbabweans are facing hunger as the country staggers towards next week's presidential elections under the burden of increasing violence and economic collapse.

At the same time, the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, expressed "profound alarm" at the level of violence and intimidation, and the arrest of opposition leaders. "Should these conditions continue to prevail, the legitimacy of the election outcomes would be in question," Ban told an informal session of the UN general assembly.

Two UN relief agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program, issued a joint report saying 2 million Zimbabweans would face hunger before September, and projected the figure would rise to 3.8 million by the end of the year, and 5.1 million by next March.

The report blamed a combination of plummeting food production and the world's highest rate of inflation.
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