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Acute food shortage reported

    NAIROBI

    Nine regions, especially in the central Tanzania, are facing acute food shortages because of drought in the area. The Christian NGO, Action for Churches Together (ACT) said that Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Singida, Shinyanga, Mwanza, Kilimanjaro, Tanga and Tabora were affected. It quoted the office of the prime minister as saying the country has a food shortage of some 680,000 mt. ACT quoted the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) in the Arusha region as saying that more than 500,000 people in the region were currently affected by the food shortage. The situation has caused the price of maize to rise as well as those of other main food crops such as cassava and sorgham which have gone up by over 50 per cent.

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