Dar Es Salaam — The United Nations World Food Programme today urgently appealed for US$16.6 million to feed 565,000 people in Tanzania facing severe hunger because of drought. After very poor rainy seasons in 2005, when food and cash crop production plummeted by 50-70 percent, this year's annual long rains across much of the country faltered and closed below normal.
With cereal prices around 85 percent higher than average and huge numbers of livestock either dead or severely emaciated, many families are eating only one meal a day.
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