Southern Africa is on the brink of a hunger crisis after an historic drought decimated crops during the peak October to March farming season - one year after the region was pummelled by tropical storms.
Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe declared national disasters within weeks of each other after insufficient rains wiped out crops including the staple maize harvest.weather pattern that triggers higher global temperatures - has reached Botswana and Angola to the west, and Mozambique and Madagascar to the east.As many as 50 million people are facing food insecurity.
"They spent all their money on buying seeds and fertilisers and paying for labour and then their crops died," he said."Their entire investment is therefore gone." Coupled with rising food prices and an unstable local currency, the plummeting maize yields have caused widespread panic.
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