KPDS ÜDS OKUMA PARÇASI - 20

Southern Africa's food crisis looks like being the worst in a decade. Around 14.5 million people are dangerously hungry, and many have been reduced to eating wild leaves and herbs. One might then expect food aid to be welcomed. But Zambia is refusing to accept American donations because much of its com and soya is genetically modified. Zambia's president. Levy Mwanawasa calls the stuff "poison" and refuses to import, despite a warning from the LJN World Food Program, on September 16th that relief supplies in his country could run out in two weeks.