Zimbabwe

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:57 pm on 3 November 2008.

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Photo of Lord Malloch-Brown Lord Malloch-Brown Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Minister of State (Africa, Asia and the UN) 2:57, 3 November 2008

My Lords, as the noble Lord knows, it is a SADC summit and its members will choose what they choose to discuss, but the constraints on effective humanitarian assistance, because of the Zimbabwe regime's corruption, are evident. I am, however, pleased that the World Food Programme and other humanitarian agencies hope to increase the size of their feeding programmes—from 2 million to 5 million people, more than half of whom remain in Zimbabwe—in ways that the agencies hope will prevent any siphoning off of funds by this corrupt regime.