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| | Cameron R. Hume ,Speeches, Remarks, Foreign relations, Foreign policy, United States South Africa Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | In the past year, generous donors, including South Africa, have contributed large-scale food aid and health, nutrition, water and agricultural inputs to meet the critical needs of most of the region's population. |
 | | While serious droughts have taken their toll on the southern Africa region in the past, the current crisis is not simply the fault of bad weather. |
 | | In Zimbabwe, price controls, government monopoly over trade in staple foods, foreign exchange restrictions and the irresponsible expropriation of land from commercial farmers have led to a virtual collapse of Zimbabwe's national economy, shredding family income and exacting a toll of food insecurity in both urban and rural areas. |
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