Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is using foreign food aid as a weapon to intimidate voters in the forthcoming presidential run-off election, a watchdog group said today.

The lives of thousands of Kenyans hit by food shortages are at risk because of the lack of funds to buy food in districts with surplus harvests for distribution in areas hit by drought, aid agencies warned today.

TO see Africa’s unrelenting hunger, look at the fevered eyes of 17 malnourished infants languishing in a west African hospital.