Zimababwe drought situation 'desperate'

Experts have warned that the abnormal rainfall in Zimbabwe, which declared a state of disaster in rural areas affected by drought, is alarming .
"With rains failing almost completely this year, the situation is getting desperate," Jan Vossen, Zimbabwe director for the charity Oxfam, told the BBC.
"In certain parts of the country, we even see that people, farmers, are using the thatch of their roofs to feed their cattle," he said.
The agricultural sector has been the worst affected, with tobacco and cotton farmers also bracing themselves for disaster, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from Johannesburg.
The United Nations World Food Programme has said some 14 million people face hunger in southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by the El Nino weather phenomenon.
South Africa, Namibia and Botswana have also been badly hit.