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UN Official Calls for Tougher Fight Against African Hunger, Poverty

Columbus Mavhunga

   VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE - A United Nations official has visited
   Zimbabwe and called on African governments to do more to reach 2030
   sustainable development goals. The U.N. is holding a forum on
   sustainable development in the resort town of Victoria Falls.

   Thirty-three-year-old Xolani Moyo said poverty and hunger are all he
   thinks of when he wakes up. It has been like that since he dropped out
   of school after his father died, and he has not escaped the circle of
   poverty.

   Pointing to his fowl run, Moyo said, "I only have two chickens. That's
   all I have. If you want to give me something and you want a collateral,
   I have to surrender myself. I do not even have a decent home. There is
   hunger here, as we have to buy food from shops. If you plant crops, sun
   burns them. Or excessive rains destroy the plants."

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