The United States offered Tuesday additional food aid to Zimbabwe to ease its famine but harshly criticized what it said were reckless actions by President Robert Mugabe to try to deal with the problem. "The United States deplores actions taken by the Mugabe regime that have further eroded human and economic liberty in Zimbabwe," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.Snow said the United States would provide 47,400 metric tons of additional food assistance, which he said would help an additional 500,000 Zimbabweans.
Once viewed as southern Africa's bread basket, Zimbabwe is suffering a political and economic crisis with soaring inflation, estimated at 4,500 percent, and food and fuel shortages.
The government has imposed a price freeze, backed by police and price inspectors that is forcing businesses to sell bread, milk and other goods at mid-June prices, effectively making them operate at a loss.
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