Zimbabwe president blames businesses for food shortages

With a weakening local currency, Zimbabwe is among one of the countries with the highest food inflation rate globally.As basic food commodities disappear from supermarket shelves in Zimbabwe in the midst of an inflation crisis,

“We are being attacked currently with rising prices. Why, just when we announced that we are going for general elections, our enemies decided that they must cause problems among our people? In May, the government lifted all restrictions on the importation of basic commodities amid skyrocketing prices of bread, flour, cooking oil and mealie meal. But prices of basic food have continued rising with products like sugar, flour and cooking oil disappearing from shop shelves in the capital.

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