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Madagascar: 2021-2022 Drought and Cyclone Response in Review - Madagascar reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The African island nation is facing its worst drought in 40 years. It has left hundreds of thousands of people fighting for survival as the crisis becomes more dire by the day.
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Madagascar - Grand Sud Humanitarian Key Messages Format HIGHLIGHTS People in the Grand Sud of Madagascar are facing the most acute drought the region has seen since 1981, leading to a severe humanitarian crisis. Some 1.13 million people—nearly two in every five people in the Grand Sud—are severely food insecure and the situation is expected to deteriorate further. Global acute malnutrition rates have risen sharply. The number of communes in nutrition emergency has increased from 38 in December 2020 to 97 in April 2021. KEY MESSAGES The Grand Sud of Madagascar has been buffeted by back to back droughts during the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 rainy seasons, forcing people to resort to desperate survival measures, such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves. The agriculture sector has been severely impacted. Between November 2020 and January 2021, less than 50 per cent of the normal rainfall was received in the Grand Sud, leading to the most acute drought in the region since 1981. By January 2021, almost 69 per cent of the Grand Sud was impacted by extreme drought. The water table is critically low in many districts, reducing access to potable water.