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Sat 10 Oct 2008UN in Zimbabwe appeal as millions face starvation
THE UNITED Nations has appealed to donors to meet a $140 million (€103 million) shortfall in its plans to stave off starvation facing millions of Zimbabweans.
The call from the World Food Programme - the UN's emergency food agency - comes amid a protracted deadlock in powersharing talks between Robert Mugabe, the president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader whose party yesterday accused the regime of "fiddling while Zimbabwe burns".
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