IWPR reports that people in the countryside can barely feed themselves as crops fail for the sixth successive year. The food security warning organisation, FSEWS, states that the overall food security situation in the country is expected to remain critical in 2006 due to the prevailing macroeconomic situation and poor food availability.

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