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From: TimF	9/2/2008 10:34:39 AM
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Zimbabwe 'retains aid controls' Aid agencies in Zimbabwe have complained that they remain subject to tight government controls despite the lifting of a ban on food aid. Hopes that the government meant well by lifting the ban "were dashed", Fambai Ngirande, a spokesman for Zimbabwean aid groups, told the BBC. They have to submit information on their staffing, equipment and operations or risk being barred. The government imposed the ban, saying aid was being used politically. It was introduced ahead of a presidential election in June and lifted last week. Aid agencies have always denied government charges that they were helping the opposition campaign. Critics of President Robert Mugabe accuse his government of only distributing food aid to his supporters - they say the ban was to make this more effective... news.bbc.co.uk

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