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U.N. food agency launches $250 million Zimbabwe plan to end hunger

by Reuters

A fruit vendor waits to sell his goods outside a bank in central Harare, Zimbabwe December 19, 2016. (Photo:/Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
The UN World Food Programme on Monday pledged $253 million to fund a five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe, which is emerging from a devastating drought that left more than 4 million people in need of food aid last year.
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