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Government heeds President Tsvangirai's call to unban NGOs
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
September 01, 2008
The government
has heeded a call by President Morgan Tsvangirai for the immediate
lifting of a ban
on the provision of food aid in the country by Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs).
On Thursday President
Tsvangirai wrote a letter to the Minister of Public Service, Labour
and Social Welfare, Nicholas Goche, on the need for urgent humanitarian
assistance in light of rampant starvation across the country.
President Tsvangirai
said due to the massive starvation stalking the country, the government
should immediately address a letter to all NGOs unequivocally countermanding
its instruction, to allow urgently needed humanitarian work to be
carried out in the country.
On Friday the
Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare issued a statement
notifying all NGOs involved in humanitarian work that the ban on
food, medicine and recovery and development work had been lifted.
Thousands of Zimbabweans across the country are in need of food
aid and the MDC has been receiving reports on the rampant starvation
across the country.
The MDC also hope that
government would not use the distribution of food as a political
weapon. Food aid should be disbursed in a non-partisan manner.
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