In Swaziland, a small land-locked country in southern Africa, the worst El Niño weather phenomenon in decades has left 25 per cent of the population, or more than 320,000 people in desperate need of food assistance. With entire crops failed, the Red Cross is turning to cash transfers to help see families through the difficult times.
"I have never seen a year like this. In the past, we have been able to grow some vegetables, but this year, nothing is growing," says Ntombile Dlamini, 77, shaking her fist at the sky. It has barely rained lately.
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