UN: 7m need food aid in Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE’s humanitarian disaster is far worse than anticipated with only 6% of the population formally employed and more than half in need of emergency food aid, a UN report has said.

Fewer than half a million Zimbabweans have jobs, while nearly seven million need emergency aid, UN agencies said in the latest stark illustration of the economy’s collapse.

The new grim estimates by the World Food Programme means more than half Zimbabwe’s 12 million people do not have enough to eat, WFP spokesman Richard Lee said.