Tag Archives: Civil defense

19Jan/16

U.N. food agency says 14 million face hunger in southern Africa

January 19, 2016EnvironmentCivil defense, Climatology, Disaster/Accident, Drought, East Africa, El Niño, Food security, Hunger, Hydrology, southern Africa, World Food Programmesmbale

The World Food Programme (WFP) has raised concern about food security in southern Africa where an estimated 14 million people are facing hunger following prolonged dry spells that led to a poor harvest last year. The weather condition is said to have been worsened by El Nino, a pattern which typically brings drier conditions to Southern Africa and wetter ones to East Africa.

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09Oct/15

Thousands of Zimbabweans receive food aid as drought and hunger bite

October 9, 2015EnvironmentCivil defense, Climatology, Drought, El Niño, Hunger, Hydrology, Malnutrition, Poverty, Zimbabwesmbale

Foods rations distributed to 30,000 people in Zimbabwe following drought and crop failure. The problems in Zimbabwe are being felt across the region, threatening the lives of millions of people who are facing hunger this year and next because of drought and erratic rains linked to an expected “super” version of the El Nino weather pattern.

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