Drought Leaves 2 Million Food Insecure in Angola
Published on: Friday 24 May 2019
Southern Angola is facing the worst drought in decades, with at least 2.3 million people at high risk of suffering malnutrition because they couldn’t get enough food, the United Nations Children’s Fund says. Among them is 58-year-old farmer Eduardo Noukala, who is struggling to find enough grass and water for the cattle his family now depends on.The worst drought to hit southern Angola in decades destroyed his entire crop.It hasn’t rained since November and thousands of farmers like Noukala were left with no harvest and little hope.He says only God knows about the drought this year, because