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Madagascar: Don't Look the Other Way - Madagascar in the Grip of Drought and Famine
WFP, 8 July 2021
Hundreds and thousands of people in the south of the country may die of hunger without World Food Programme support -- the organization urgently needs US$78 million to respond Read more »
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Madagascar: 350Africa.org Reacts to Climate Change-Driven Drought Crisis in Madagascar
350Africa.org, 13 July 2021
Africa-Thousands of people in southern Madagascar may die of hunger, as the country experiences the worst drought witnessed in 40 years. The severe drought, which is driven by… Read more »
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Madagascar: Madagascar's Hungry 'Holding On for Dear Life', WFP Chief Warns
UN News, 23 June 2021
Thousands of families in southern Madagascar are on the edge of starvation, and "holding on for dear life", the UN food agency chief said on Wednesday - after bearing witness to… Read more »
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Madagascar: 'You Really Can't Imagine How Bad It Is' - WFP Chief on Hunger in Madagascar
VOA, 22 June 2021
The head of the World Food Program said Tuesday that more than a million people in southern Madagascar are "marching toward" starvation, and some 14,000 are already in famine-like… Read more »
World Food Programme Needs U.S.$78 Million to Help Madagascar
Severe hunger caused by climate change continues to affect southern Madagascar, writes Shelley Thakral for the World Food Programme. People are living through the worst drought in 40 years, which has caused an almost total disappearance of food sources. In recent months, for the first time in the country, pockets of Phase 5, or "Catastrophe" food insecurity on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification have been recorded. At least 1.14 million people in the Grand Sud need emergency food and nutrition assistance and have been suffering from hunger since the start of the lean season that began in September 2020.
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It is estimated that more than a million people face hunger in the country's worst drought in decades. An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for ... Read more »
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A historic drought, sandstorms caused by deforestation and the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have plunged southern Madagascar into the region's worst nutrition crisis ... Read more »
Underweight and malnourished children wait for treatment at a nutrition centre in Ambovombe district in June.
