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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A senior U.S. diplomat said Friday he did not believe Zimbabwe's government was committed to preparing for food shortages that are expected to affect some 4 million people in the troubled country in southern Africa.
Tony Hall, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization, met with Housing Minister Nicholas Goche after touring a poor township where 30,000 people were evicted during President Robert Mugabe's recent clampdown on the urban poor.
Hall said he asked Goche "a lot of questions about food aid" and whether the government was prepared to cope with the expected shortages.
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