Zimbabwe could run out of bread in a week after flour stocks dwindled due to the country\u2019s failure to pay for imported wheat, according to a confidential letter written to bakers by the country\u2019s grain millers\u2019 group on Monday.<\/p>\n
The southern African nation is in the grip of a severe shortage of U.S. dollars that has sapped supplies of fuel and drugs, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa struggles to live up to pre-election promises to quickly revive the troubled economy.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe imports wheat, which it blends with its local crop to make flour for bread, the country\u2019s second major staple after maize meal.<\/p>\n
The Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) general manager Lynette Veremu wrote to the National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) to tell them the country cannot pay for 55 000 tonnes of wheat in bonded warehouses in Mozambique and Harare.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe regret to advise that the current stocks for foreign wheat for bread flour have depleted to 5 800 tonnes and \u2026 we are left with less than eight days of national bread flour supplies,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n
GMAZ spokesman Garikai Chaunza confirmed the letter, saying \u201cthis is the situation we are faced with\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zimbabwe could run out of bread in a week after flour stocks dwindled due to the country\u2019s failure to pay for imported wheat, according to a confidential letter written to bakers by the country\u2019s grain millers\u2019 group on Monday. The southern African nation is in the grip of a severe shortage of U.S. dollars that … Continue reading “Unable to pay for wheat, Zimbabwe running out of bread”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":20706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[854,7514,12469,12468,180],"class_list":["post-20705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-africa","tag-bread","tag-dollars","tag-wheat","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zim_bread.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20708,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions\/20708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}