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In dry Lesotho, hunger stalks family farmers
Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have also declared disasters as the most severe El Nino-induced drought in a century scorches crops and fells livestock across the region.
A general view of dried-up crops at Lipelaneng in Butha-Buthe District on August 7, 2024. - According to the government around 700,000 people are fighting hunger, which in July was declared a national disaster over threatened food security. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
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In a parched village in southern Africa's tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a farmer tramps through his dusty plot and pulls desiccated stalks and roots from