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Famine ‘tightens grip’ on southern Madagascar : UN

By AFP
May 12, 2021

ANTANANARIVO: More than one million people in southern Madagascar are facing acute food insecurity as the region grapples with its worst drought in four decades, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Five straight years of low rainfall have wiped out harvests and hampered access to food, compounding the effects of erosion caused by deforestation and devastating sandstorms.