Tanzania: Urgent Food Aid Needed Half a Million Hit by Drought

press release

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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