Zimbabwe orders UN to hand over food

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President Robert Mugabe's regime, accused of withholding food from thousands of starving people in pro-opposition areas, has ordered the United Nations to hand over its famine relief stocks for the state's controversial food distribution operations, reports said here on Tuesday.

The independent Daily News quoted from a state directive saying that aid agencies could deliver grain to famine relief distribution points but that local government officials "will be responsible for the distribution of food."

The World Food Programme, by far the largest distributor of food in the country which plans to feed 5,5-million people in this second year of famine, has a strict policy all over the world that excludes government agencies from distributing UN food, to avoid corruption and abuse of food supplies.

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