Unpaid fees threaten food aid distribution

TRANSPORT operators engaged by government to move food aid to avert hunger have complained over unpaid fees threatening the distribution the relief, NewsDay has gathered.

Several transporters and district development co-ordinators who preside over food distribution through the Department of Social Welfare across the country have raised concern over unpaid transport fees plunging the country into yet another crisis.

Zimbabwe embarked on a threemonth blitz from May to July last year targeting more than 6,2 million vulnerable members of the community after the El Niño-induced drought decimated output.

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