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UN world food conference, illegal regime change

Robert Mugabe accuses West of trying to starve him out



President Mugabe attacked Britain and its allies for using sanctions to create the conditions for "illegal regime change"

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Richard Owen Timesonline Robert Mugabe used a UN world food conference in Rome yesterday to accuse Britain and its Western allies of trying to topple him through “illegal regime change” by crippling Zimbabwe economically. There was also serious criticism from a more authoritative source when Jacques Diouf, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, accused the West of getting its priorities wrong, worrying about climate change, cars and biofuels at the expense of feeding the poor. Mr Diouf said: “Nobody understands how $11 billion to $12 billion a year of subsidies in 2006 have had the effect of diverting 100 million tonnes of cereals from human consumption, mostly to satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles.” Mr Diouf called for £15 billion a year to be spent on giving 862 million hungry people “the right to food”. He said that the amount spent on food aid for the Third World had more than halved in real terms, from £4 billion in 1980 to £1.7 billion in 2004. More...


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