Angola and Namibia are facing their severest drought in over a quarter of a century.
Some 330,000 people in Namibia are food insecure, 14 percent of the country’s population. Over 600,000 people in the Angolan border provinces of Cunene and Namib do not have enough food or water due to two consecutive years of failed rains. At the national level, more than 1,833,900 people are experiencing severe food insecurity. Malnutrition is on the rise, with a number of deaths among children. Given that no harvest is foreseen until March 2014, an LWF assessment predicts the situation will deteriorate rapidly without outside intervention. The Government of Namibia has declared a national emergency.
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