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Tanzania donates maize

    JOHANNESBURG

    Tanzania is to donate 1,000 mt of maize to victims of the devastating floods in Mozambique, news reports said.

    “The Tanzanian government has decided to donate the food as a gesture of solidarity with the people of Mozambique,” a foreign ministry statement said. Tanzania, one of the world’s most impoverished countries, has suffered a shortage of the staple maize crop for the last three years. The food aid to Mozambique will come from the national food stocks.

    At the same time, the Kenyan government has also reportedly contributed US $75,000 to the UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) emergency operation in flood-stricken Mozambique.

    Kenya’s President Daniel arap Moi presented his country’s donation on Tuesday, the agency said in a statement. “We appreciate the Kenyan government’s contribution at a time when Kenya itself is confronted with the dire effects of drought in large parts of the country,” the agency added.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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