Welcome to the stream im femi oke a millions of people in zimbabwe are short of food and clean water and hes putting pressure on a government that is already battling to revive a flagging a corner me what is needed to pause involve way back from the brink you can send your thoughts through twitter and you change every part of todays conversation. There is little sign of an end to zimbabwes a worst drought in years and now more than a half of the countrys population is short of enough food about 5 and a half 1000000 people in rural parts and way more than 2000000. 00 more in urban regions of face regular hunger in recent months and the problem is so bad that the u. N. Warns they could spark civil unrest and that threatens National Security adviser as her roommate tasa has more in the daily challenge of finding safe water. In zimbabwe 2nd city the supply of piped water from the city council is unreliable that means they sometimes have to use untreated water when the supply is turned on with lindsay make civil trips to the communal tap to stock up she says a neighborhood can sometimes go a whole week without water and she doesnt want to use any thats not clean and safe getting water in the holes doesnt make us feel cold because that water is not here on the lake this post due to so many people is definitely forms so i believe it was something i dont. The pseudo water crisis is so bad that in january zimbabwes agriculture minister warned there was less than 30 days worth of grain in the country Strategic Reserves and there are other persistent problems political and economic corruption remains widespread those who protest against the government often face violent crackdowns by police and bouts of hyper inflation has eaten into salaries with doctors among those in the Public Sector recently going on strike in the sent us this video comment about the impact of zimbabwes economic crisis on women lets check it out the impact of the deliberate economic crisis in zimbabwe sin a lot of women especially have been struggling to make ends meet food is generally expensive and Exchange Rates which are changing but. Actually make it difficult for women to be able to budget into sustain their families youll find good most women in areas find it difficult to to have a blow to me or there to be a family. From the city of below y. O. We have dr in tbilisi and there lay bare bay he is a former secretary general of the Zimbabwe Medical Doctors Association and from harare we have a son a morio he is c. E. O. And founder of mines the Mandela Institute for development studies. Asked safe before we get started we also invited Nick Mangwana a spoke persons next person for the ruling zanu p. F. Party to join our panel but he stopped responding to our cause we were also due to have more in count them up from the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change she also stopped responding to us just before we went to air and you know what that means it means that we have even more space on this show for you to tweet us at a. J. Stream and also if you to comment in argue chub a link and a conversation and you too can be part of his very important conversation let me just start here dr bevary how bad is the Food Insecurity situation in zimbabwe right now what does that mean on a day to day basis we were through really very indirectly it very very very and greenlaw who shoot it very well. Its really only if you look. If you shoot and. And things like that. Some of the organizations. Varity of. Security theyve estimated that the. Existing. Security is about 2200000 and. 5000000. Youre looking at about. 6 to 7000000 of them when. Facing. d the sun a i know that you are old enough mature enough see enough to remember the days when seen bob way with sending food around the african continent was an incredible as a culture. And people knew about the farmers in zimbabwe so the idea that people should be short of food that may be the only having one meal a day what does that mean for the country right. Well. The doctor took them to d just built out its. Almost what 40 percent or a population which is. d where your supper awful put in security thats it. But ive been trying to do before is that. The City Government was. Going to be a problem if it is used we need peace until the last minute before its that bt that actually that is the problem so even if up to us to do with happiness went to a seat they did it wrong information and this too late. To tool up to the. Uk to fit it into this is out of it so it is a tragedy it isnt like she said it i grew up independent family. And i didnt want to come good monday it was all because of the food that you produce and ourselves if. It was about anything this it would do for starters and we have to also look at it in the world of the media in terms of the fast food enough food for themselves its a mix of produce food which food that it exported. I want to give our International Viewers an idea of what it is like to be living in zimbabwe right now more Food Insecurity and if we meet on a day to day basis so this week im back to september yet i think the temper of 21000 because this is not a new issue is have a look. At anybody go malevolent on the morality to use the money that we received to pay for my Childrens School fees and the rest to buy food but ever since last time we got the money we have faced serious Food Shortages only once in the evenings and wild proves a whole day subtle when needed the money the most that we would. Can i got in it sometimes we bought of the sense that we are making for some food and that is the main reason were making the film so we get some girls manage thought about in terms of the health of zimbabwe and how is that doing right now the really crazy. Matter of political. Reality. Is. It is very difficult to come in in that. The economic situation. Being secure basic. Basic. Drugs. Are not in. The ukraine is. To give him a little because. Were. Singing it. In there we dont but it is better to resign from the public and private and even opted to leave the country so in summary ill be out there we see its reaching or are they not in our Financial Markets to find is all we need. In the. Days so that all the equipment they should make. We should all be bringing our. Very simple commission or cannot. Nicholas hart who is now to say our correspondent went to see what the medical situation was like in zimbabwe and that was just back in december and have a look at one hospital that he found and the some kind of soldiers that dr bevary has just been explaining lets have a look. A hospital director gave aljazeera rare access to one of the Public Hospital in bulawayo in the wards he chose to show us there was no shortage of equipment but few medical supplies right now that coming just days beginning is major major problem is this the sanctions in their nobility to get foreign currency to import tracks so thats beyond my control but i am going in wait i have to wake and use whatever it is this is available to save lives so many issues that are really on path for zimbabwe is not just about the drought its not about medical supplies and tina tender who is watching this on each of them following says that zimbabwe isnt free for i blame both the opposition and the ruling party theyre considering politics 1st and not the people. Well you know i dont know all this to look at what it. Was the government is running a country that democracy can give people here it is if you decide this. It is up to us. Which is the executive the only big body. But let me take this to about india who did more limited action talk about using the money to send it to the new School Zimbabwean supported it is a kiss but that will make the source that we use words like. The kind of implementing this policy which i did not forward. Down saw. What 8090 percent i dont believe it. Is a little get into it just says will the children did find money if it gets to. That a little when you claim it it said this is mr linton provided for free so our taxes how do you expect people to survive this is their due to all that they can do but this is difficult to see live because of his will it is utterly misguided it means people going to understand what a government needs the government for the make it is that is in is mental the kind it is they are responsible for the failure and success is to not appear that it didnt fit or to use that this book to sign him out what next time so people are being misguided and in terms of including the opposition in the face of the government. How much is there a level of frustration because after there was a change in leadership in zimbabwe how do you want to describe that change in leadership what really actually change and really because it looked like it was the same. Leaders that were there apart from form present government like in exactly the same people were running the country well absolutely. Well. So. What. We need. To say. Im just bringing in hair Nelson Nelson is on nelson thank you for joining our conversation now security is now the biggest threat more than poverty and hunger the president is pledging to war families that bring dead people to his new mood sheree so i dont know if you can even speak to this doctor but they put this idea that because of where we are with hunger with drought with that instability that it could cause bigger problems youll take a bigger bargain recordable would be. Like not so clear where you can be pretty quick yes of course so nelson is joining in this conversation with us he is on you tube he says National Security is now the biggest threat more than poverty and hunger because of those issues where people are not being able to get enough food they are not getting jobs because unemployment is so high doctor betty. Yes i just early green. With the dot com and that was the issue the Food Security issues of unemployment issues of the liquidity crisis which is over the. Loss of our low fortys and then blaming low wages and then all is eternity it is a tough mission and security was the balance to. Serve and lead as a matter of fact as the prime increment a low in thats actually good for about 4 months and one of our colleagues was that it during the. Election and thats a few days ago the mentees were also complaining they need to protect them once. Again the fighting that system of being exposed to in human waking hours in human working condition and that every month and given a salary which is where the lead salary is committed by the most basic thing in the my case and their salary that keeps on losing value each and every 2nd and and does that they dont test of thinking on strike no discipline going on strike how impactful how. What difference does it make its very unfortunate because what be in thats actually invented been doing so for. Our feet is that there is no one was actually listening to our cries is d no one to care much about our demand. And previously we have cited all our senses than our demonstrations of embezzling that say she is. When dad got put to. Bed more paul. Did not read me give the pay and all what i want public. Employee i wish you peace up men however on the way out if i mean here that. Doctor you know your heart and try to do. It most all you see even if it is if the problem comes in a suicide you get the distance between the leadership in the city. Announced on it. So that the citys dead kid i absolutely lived either says exactly how its like this situation as it is currently that is nor has a city that has been. Effected by the goolies and because they are lucky. They dont seem to understand that one of the honest ones is easy easy to see to this is tending to what is good within for their. Insecurity is the ticket here is all be the use up to last if that is not the one we didnt have to get into the lead one is it was it the aziz to get it we are not. All that time what is going to happen is that the citizens who. Did press exactly what are you willing to there is to put it into his words to. Really put the pressure beat this team if you like because the government is not sawing in understanding gives in to listen. I want to share this where he is watching and commenting on twitter if im a doctor i just want to bring in some of our audience who are also following the show says i think your coverage of talking about the streams coverage of zimbabwe is biased and unjust poor journalism failed to point out that zimbabwe is under sanctions which of course devastating effects the u. S. Recently renewed sanctions you need to include as a government for discussion so pat like you may have missed the point where i actually did say we invited zanu p. F. And weve been chasing them backwards and forth and they said yes we come on and we wont come on and then they go state us so there was that we were trying to do that but i also had ready and i think this is very important to share with you not to add a color shihan bori who is an activist she is a doctor and she grew up in zimbabwe and she particularly talks about sanctions scare lets have a listen it today between sanctions against our beloved country of zimbabwe zimbabwe has been under sanctions for a very long time the people of zimbabwe have suffered from many dying from starvation because of shortages of food many dying because the hospitals are closed because of should use of medical supplies should use of fuel the kind he has been devastating in the most affected and the most vulnerable for those who disobey surgeons do look at the economy. In simberg lets see how how long are you going to last i dont even know how the people of zimbabwe i still stand in after everything that has been going on and also for as long as this sentence has been going on these searches. So i had that ready to play because i felt that i was very important and could you point a lot of the problems that zimbabwe has right now the sanctions that were actually upon late against president mcgarvey 20 years ago and continue to be renewed. I hadnt started trying to do that so this is about exhibit. Large that. Zimbabwes industry may soon barnes and noble is the 1st one is quarks and i think its tragic that someone like this live it is just a speedy kid they want to just see if you would listen son says look. If you look at it did elicit is it in the nasa edge of the gate you visited leader of a country i dont want to be able to doing the things that are under control. Place now says you know just like you lot in many respects thats good. Zimbabwean good groups lately if for. All of that and its fun to talk to i mean yes the sun will keep this the amount of. Little corruption in this country send so that when you go this is a point where you want to fall its not going to be able to compete. With it in. All its. Called actually took risks with. It is not actually spoke to get all all stick on it dont know. What theyre going to do sanctions we just keep doing the doing me well anderson says it. Much bigger than when you were under sanctions and to satisfy your nation youre mentioning people that the young people of zimbabwe were alive long before they were even born so were going deep into zimbabwe in history but i absolutely take your point and let me just go on to twitter again because no no no. If their course shape the future which for them it was legitimate and were talking about the colonial history of zimbabwe that said let me just go to to convey here on twitter he says 6. 00 to 7000000. 00 are at the risk of facing hunger we should have planned for Climate Change but it seems as if someone is sleeping on king marco. Is a journalist who has been looking at the situation in zimbabwe this is how she sums up what is happening and her country. The drought just highlights one of many issues for the Current Administration and there is a lot of reacting and not enough. Many for months. There wasnt enough planning there wasnt enough Disaster Management there wasnt enough information or around to. Do classes and misses. Millions of audience today im just wondering and presented just in a sentence and i thought how disembark we get out of the situation. Now you see but lets just say that that this country. You know and we go to the beach what this is that this stuff. This is. 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