Famine looms in southern Madagascar, U.N.’s food agency says ...Middle East

GENEVA: Famine threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.The lives of children are in danger, especially those under five years old whose malnutrition rates have reached “alarming levels”, Amer Daoudi, senior director of global WFP operations, said by videolink from Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.At least 1.35 million people are in need of food assistance in the region, but the WFP is only reaching 750,000 with “half-rations” due to financial constraints, he said.“Famine looms in southern Madagascar as communities witness an almost total disappearan

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