Millions of people across southern Africa are facing severe food shortages as a result of a historic drought linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon.
The United Nations and the World Food Programme (WFP) have warned that over 27 million people are affected, with five countries, including Lesotho, particularly hard-hit. The drought has devastated crops and livestock, leading to the region's worst hunger crisis in decades.
Humanitarian agencies are calling for urgent international assistance to prevent a full-scale catastrophe.
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Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an “historic drought” linked to last year’s El Niño, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
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