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Zimbabwe: food shortages

Written bySokari Ekine
Posted 2 February 2006 16:26 GMT

The Bearded man has a roundup of Zimbabwean news: shortage of Zimbabwe's staple food, maize meal, means people are eating substandard bread if they can afford it; the issue of a Zim dollar 50,000 note which with the hyper inflation will buy 3.6 eggs or 4 candles.

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