9. November 2019
Most serious of all is the food crisis. The United Nations World Food Program issued a warning in August that over 5.5 million people, one third of Zimbabwe’s population, will be at risk of famine by early 2020, with 2.5 million already “marching towards starvation.” In September, it revised these estimates upwards, with 8.5 million people now likely to require emergency food aid.