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UK Releasing US$5.4M For Food-Insecure Zimbabweans
UK representative in Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson meets Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Minister (Sibusiso Moyo) and President Emmerson Mnangagwa
The United Kingdom (UK) is set to release £4 million, approximately US$5.4 million, to help assist thousands of food-insecure Zimbabweans.
The UK is releasing an extra £47 million of aid to immediately provide food, nutrition, water and shelter for vulnerable families in nine countries and regions including across the Sahel, Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Mozambique. The UK embassy in Zimbabwe revealed in a statement:
Zimbabwe will receive £4 million (US$5.4 million) to help support 110,000 food insecure people living in 8 urban areas.