ZIMBABWE: Major aid hinges on political deal
HARARE, 17 January 2009 (IRIN): Once Zimbabwes political crisis is settled the county will need a major reconstruction programme to revive its collapsed social services, Ann Veneman, executive director of the UN childrens agency, UNICEF, said Saturday in the capital, Harare.
She is the first head of a UN agency to visit Zimbabwe in three years, and her trip comes at the time of a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 2.000 people, food shortages affecting 5,5 million and a long-endured economic crisis that has paralysed the country.
During Venemans three-day mission she met aid workers, NGOs and President Robert Mugabe to discuss the humanitarian situation.
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