UN says 400,000 are approaching starvation in Madagascar ami

UN says 400,000 are approaching starvation in Madagascar amid back-to-back droughts
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26/06/2021 - 12:28
A woman collects water from a puddle in the dried Manambovo river bed in Tsihombe, Madagascar, May 2, 2021. © Viviane Rakotoarivony/UN Handout via REUTERS
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The U.N. World Food Program says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation, and have already caused deaths from severe hunger.
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Lola Castro, WFP’s regional director in southern Africa, told a news conference Friday that she witnessed “a very dramatic and desperate situation” during her recent visit with WFP chief David Beasley to the Indian Ocean island nation of 26 million people.

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