Over half of harvest destroyed due to ‘historic’ drought in Zimbabwe: UN

United Nations, Aug 8 (IANS) More than half of the harvest in Zimbabwe was destroyed due to a “historic” drought, and some 7.6 million people in the country are now at risk of acute hunger, a UN spokesman has said.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that the food security situation in Zimbabwe is deteriorating rapidly following the historic drought caused by El Nino, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN secretary-general, at a daily briefing on Wednesday.

UN Assistant Secretary-General and Climate Crisis Coordinator Reena Ghelani, and Assistant Executive Director of the World Food Programme Valerie Guarnieri recently concluded a week-long mission to assess the impact of the drought in the southern African country, and they called for more