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Madagascar drought: 330,000 people ‘one step from famine’, UN warns
The severe drought afflicting southern Madagascar has left 330,000 people on the brink of famine, a senior UN official has warned.
Three successive years of failed rains have left the island nation wrestling with crop failure and a chronic lack of food and clean drinking water, with agencies warning last month that nearly 850,000 people are experiencing “alarming” hunger levels.
“Three hundred and thirty thousand are on the verge of a food security catastrophe, next step being famine,” said Dominique Burgeon, director of emergencies and rehabilitation at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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