Worst yet to come in once-in-a-century southern Africa drought, UN says

The United Nations World Food Programme said it expected the number of people struggling to put enough food on the table to increase as the lean season, the period between harvests when food is scarcest, gets underway.

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Future Nyamukondiwa inspects a stunted cob in her dry maize field on March 13, 2019, in the Mutoko rural area of Zimbabwe. Eastern Zimbabwe receives help to fight drought induced hunger, as a total of 32.000 villagers affected by drought in the Mutoko area. (AFP)