By Edward Makuzva
Harare, Zimbabwe. (News of The South) – The World Food Program (WFP), has projected that the number of Zimbabweans facing food insecurity could reach 8.6 million by the end of the year and that is estimated to be 60percent of the population. Inflation has remained high, at over 786 percent.
Zimbabwe is now considered one of the four most food-insecure countries in the world, alongside Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan.
In a statement, it is clear that Zimbabwe is a nation in dire need of being brought together for an inclusive approach to solving all these problems. Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) therefore recommends that as the SA envoys do their work, they must consider the following:
Approach the Zimbabwean problem as not an internal Zanu PF issue, but realise that the entire country is suffering, and requires a break from human rights violations and the economic meltdown, which in itself has become a human rights issue.
“The health delivery infrastructure is so dilapidated that “unborn children and mothers are dying daily.” In one case in July, seven out of eight babies suffered stillbirths in one night at Harare Hospital.
“We at least ask that they implore the government to put an end to human rights violations that include arbitrary and politically motivated arrests, abductions, harassment and intimidation and stifling of freedoms of expression and affiliation.
“Perpetrators of these should also be brought to book. It is only when the State stops preying on its people that the country can begin to find a real, permanent solution
“We also urge the government to realise that this is an opportunity for the beginning of an end to the crisis in Zimbabwe and that this should not be reduced to a political mudslinging that can only take the country into further abyss”, ZPP explained.
Meanwhile, ZPP, we will continue to insist that Zimbabwe’s solution lies in the end to this terror, and the realisation by government that they are there to serve the interests of Zimbabweans.
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