People in Kalabo’s Liuwa area are surviving on grass due to severe hunger that has hit the area.
Speaking on behalf of the other community members, a senior citizen Nalwalwa Simangolwa of Munde village told ZANIS that Sibeni and Munde villages run out of food due poor rainfall experienced in the area.
Mr Simangolwa said villagers were at first feeding on fish but the waters in the lagoons have since dried up.
He lamented that the drying up of the water in ponds had left them with no option but to feed on wheat like grass traditionally known as Bucuani .
Mr. Simangolwa appealed to government under the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) to assist the area with relief before an outbreak of malnutrition.
The senior citizen, who travelled for over 60 kilometres to reach Kalabo Boma area to ask for assistance from the District Commissioner’s office, was optimistic that government would send relief to the affected areas soon.
Recently District DMMU chairperson Mwiya Inambao who is also Acting District Commissioner said 4500 by 50 kilograms of maize had been allocated for Kalabo District in the first phase and that the transporter would transport the maize into the District soon to alleviate the hunger situation.
zooooooona eeeee,chuleniko first kabili ifintu ni lungu,kkkkkkk,zambia??????????????kkkkkkkk lol
kalabo villagers dint vote for Ejigah. That is Barotse Royal Establishment.They want be independent but mukutolokela pama bus yakuya kulusaka bapena.
Vote for PF next year for more food and money in yo pockets. Kikikikiki
what has lungu got to do with people being lazy? how can a whole village run out of food? where were they when food was running out? what were they doing?
Tumfweko you are idiots. Why decide to block my devices here. Veryffoolish biased website. It won’t help pf whether you block me or not.
People are cry babies really, crying for being not published, why not try Zambian watch tonga. Tumfweko is a very fair site but if you include offensive language, then you ll be blocked.
What will happen to the cows and goats if we begin eating their food? Posing for news, I guess,
Insala ni konse, fo th past days tulali ama cookies, no money 4 melimeal. Such is life nway…
that photo is for South african pastor Mboro
Hey! Boma Inonge , help our brethren out there. The rainfall was indeed bad. Though some moving packets of idiocy continue to blame everything on EL. The scrambling of the rains is what is referred to as the act of God.
Dmmu dnt send food to those idiots, let HH gv the food kaili eo ba votela.U r busy walking 60kms to the gvt wen u nid food bt wen it comes to voting busy ukupela icimutonga..I hate lozis and tongaz.
Uli cungwa iwe! What about Malole in Northern Province who always vote for their tribe. Useless man! stupid tribalist.
Chief Puta let love lead, m bemba frm both sides bt I lov o tribes. Js bcoz one z rong dsnt mean o ar rong,aini baane.
Good punishiment of voting owez fo the oposition. No rain nowoh. When God says yes no man can say no. They opted to say no to His Ex E.C.Lungu in supot of Hechi Hechi that he is rich & can change there lives in one day, now let Hechi Hechi do it with his DMMU of pipo like nez or it now old educatedless zambian tonga.
Very foolish man. Optimistic about a government that has failed to help you in first place. A pf government that has failed to ensure precautionary measures were in place. A pf government whose priorities are to restrict movements of opposition leader and not ensure food security. Vote upnd
Come 2016, many of them will vote Ifintu…… because Inonge Wina is vice president as if they are sharing the benefits with her.
Very useles to this country Zambia. So its PF who are at fault fot rain not to be in westen, sousande & nothwesten provinces?
Can we be told which type of grass that is, gentlemen avoid exaggerations.
If we think Government should feed people even at village level, then we are lost.we need to encourage people to grow cassava, millet, sorghum etc if we are to achieve food security at household level.
If a person in a typical village can be expecting to buy mealie meal from a shop, then hunger will forever be in abundance in this country.
If the shortage is due to natural causes or acts of God eg droughts, pests that is a different matter, that becomes a disaster for GRZ to manage and depending on magnitude with help from other partners eg world food program etc.
@Biko Walasa those fools must pay for their actions of voting for Hate Hate.How i wish that hunger cud spread to southern province so dat we see who cn help the pipo between Hate Hate and Edgar Chagwa Uwamano Lungu.
Ba Juju mulibamano sana.
Kosenifye n moreovr tefyani ifyo nga fyani nga mwalipusuka?palasti bondwe,kalembula,chibwabwa,chomolya etc wil b considerd ichani,u want chicken tefyo,mwilakwata ichikasha kulyafye palya relief tailafika.thank God @least mulelyako ne chani pantu abanenu balala insala.
Hello haters take sum cows there,aint u tha niga wit a lot if cattle,pigs and goats?
very disappointing language to use. However does not surprise us coming from the PF folk
The cheap UPND politics is what is killing the party,I’ve not yet heard anything constructive from the top to the bottom-most. I govt or ECL incharge of the rain pattern? Very childish U5 comments. How can you blame govt of poor planning even before harvesting pipo are eating grass when we are still having stocks of our last harvest which can take us up to November.ubunang’ani kulya icaani ngachapwa walya amafi,ngayapwa walya na baana.DMMU on the way bane ,no zambian should die with hunger.But mujimuke musakufwa na nzala juba jimo.
Saw the civil servants yawning kwati ma refuse oh sory refugees. Ati ifintu ni lunguleni. Even refugees r getting much help than a true zambian worker. Vote upnd for u wil b respected.
Come Lord Jesus come Quickly
to bad for friends down there kwa kalabo
of course we can not forget that critical times had to deal with.mattew 24:1-13