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Britain warns of food crisis

    JOHANNESBURG

    In London, the British foreign office minister, Peter Hain, warned this week that Zimbabwe would need emergency food in coming months unless the government implemented urgent economic reforms.

    News reports quoted him as saying that President Robert Mugabe had to start working with the international lending agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, on a reform programme. So far, he said, it was unclear whether Mugabe was ready to take the necessary steps to rescue an economy which had seen a 10 percent drop in output last year and a “collapse”

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