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20 million people are severely affected by drought in southern Africa and will be unable to feed themselves until 2025, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
These millions of people are in Zimbabwe, southern Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.
The World Food Programme’s Country Director for Zimbabwe, Francesca Erdelmann, speaks of the worst drought in over 70 years in the south-east of the country.
“I’ve just been talking to some community elders. The last time they experienced a drought like this was in 1947. This is not a normal situation. And they say that the drought that’s happening now, coupled with this heat, has never happened before. So we’re expecting an impact on agricultural production,” she said.
Zambia and Malawi have declared national disasters, noting that the drought has reached Botswana and Angola in the west, and Mozambique and Madagascar in the east.
