Namibia: People Starving At Ruacana

11 September 2012

While the government has committed N$32 million for drought relief for the Kunene Region in July this year, another 20 000 people in the adjacent Omusati Region in the Ruacana Constituency have been hit by hunger and starvation.

The Omusati Region has already started distributing emergency relief food to the more than 20 000 residents, mostly the Ovazemba and the Ovahimba, but has ran out of food supplies.

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