Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Face Famine Threat

Signs of despair and looming starvation are evident almost everywhere in Zimbabwe's countryside which is suffering from the government's destruction of commercial agriculture and a third successive year of drought. Normally at this time, as the short southern winter begins, people would be completing the harvest of maize, the staple food, and be preparing to deliver their produce to the sole legal grain buyer, the government's Grain Marketing Board.