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The
mission leader of the Opec Fund for International Development
to Lesotho, Edwin Gutierrez, said food aid from the fund worth $400
000 will be delivered to the country by his organisation to feed
thousands of hungry people.
Gutierrez was addressing a press conference on the current food
crisis in the sub region, at the end of a two-day visit to Lesotho
as part of a Southern African tour.
He said 650 000 people affected by food shortages in Lesotho would
be assisted by Opec emergency food aid in the next 12 months.
Gutierrez thanked Lesotho's Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Security for its effective management and distribution of food
aid.
The Opec grant to Lesotho will help purchase nearly 600 t of
nutritious corn-soya blend which will be used as part of a general
household ration and for special feeding programmes for school
children, mothers and people living with HIV/Aids.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Dan Phororo, said
that on current assessments a large number of people in Lesotho,
especially people living with HIV/Aids and their families, would
remain vulnerable to food shortages during the 2003-04 agricultural
season.
They will require 32 000 t of maize which will be partly provided
by the Opec Fund food aid.
The Opec mission will complete its tour of southern Africa with
visits to Swaziland and Mozambique. – Sapa.
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