Mugabe orders aid agencies to surrender food By Basildon Peta, Southern Africa Correspondent 20 August 2003 Zimbabwe has ordered the United Nations and other relief agencies to surrender their emergency food aid to ruling party officials. The move, revealed yesterday, may be designed to ensure President Robert Mugabe's regime can resume food aid deliveries, which could then be used as a political weapon to punish opponents in the run-up to provincial and district elections. Representatives of aid agencies, who had won agreement from the government to distribute aid without interference, expressed shock at the decision. The World Food Programme (WFP)...