Which southern African countries are battling drought disasters
- El Niño brings crippling drought to Southern Africa
- As malnutrition spikes, funding desperately needed
- Fear of flooding, landslides in 2025
Dead elephants, desperate farmers forced to eat leaves, parched fields, dying livestock and failed crops - the worst drought in decades has wreaked havoc across southern Africa where millions of people are going hungry and economies are faltering.
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Zimbabwean smallholder farmers have been ploughing parched earth following El Niño-related droughts in 2015, 2019 and 2023.
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Malawi declared a state of disaster in March after severe El Niño conditions decimated 23 of the country's 28 districts and 44% of national maize production, the WFP said.
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Zambia has faced a host of climate change challenges, from drought, heatwaves and floods - a huge burden in a country where more than half of its 19.6 million people already live below the poverty line, according to the WFP.
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