Nkomo says headmen know their communities better than NGOs

Minister of Special Affairs John Nkomo told a visiting United States official that the government had decided to let village headmen distribute food because they knew their communities better than non-governmental organisations. He told the official, Malik Chaka, that the policy requiring humanitarian food relief to be administered through village headmen and rural councils was

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