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Humanitarian crisis looms in Madagascar amid drought and pandemic
New York: In southern Madagascar, “famine-like conditions” have doubled the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance compared with last year, to more than 1.3 million. Successive droughts and a lack of jobs linked to COVID-19 restrictions are to blame, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
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Humanitarian crisis looms in Madagascar amid drought and pandemic Wed, Jan 13 2021