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BLANTYRE — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Southern Africa is experiencing the worst El Nino-induced drought in 35 years, following the failure of two consecutive rainy seasons, a UN spokesman told reporters last week.
Nearly 40 million people in the region are food insecure, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
This year’s El Nino is taking place in a world already dramatically affected by climate change.
More extreme weather events are expected in the future, and these hit the poorest communities — those least responsible for climate change — first and hardest. Aid is not enough; a longer term approach is required in order to build the resilience of the most vulnerable.
Meanwhile, Malawi’s worst food security crisis in decades will require the largest humanitarian response ever in the Southern African country’s history.
Some 6,5 million people, which is nearly 40 percent of Malawi’s population, need emergency food assistance, according to the country’s Vulnerability Assessment Committee report for 2016-17. — Xinhua/CAJ News.
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