Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst hunger crisis in decades, the United Nations' food agency said Tuesday, October 15, 2024.The World Food Program warned it could become a “full-scale human catastrophe.

The WFP has begun helping with food assistance and other critical support at the request of various governments in the region, he said.Phiri said southern Africa's crisis came at a time of “soaring global needs,” with humanitarian aid also desperately required in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere.

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