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Sep 27 2008, Nazeema

Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages, an aid agency said on Thursday.Save the Children said the most vulnerable faced starvation unless they get food...

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