© WFP/Evelyn Fey In Mauritania, community members are engaged in a soil rehabilitation project. The World Food Programme (WFP) will increase its food and nutrition assistance programme this month in West and Central Africa in hopes of reaching 7.3 million people as the June-August lean season is under way at a time when hunger levels…
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News From Zambia to Afghanistan, WFP warns El Niño’s extreme weather is causing a surge in hunger
Extreme weather attributed to the El Niño phenomenon is causing a surge in hunger in several countries, including Zambia and Afghanistan, the UN’s World Food Programme said Wednesday, and called on donors for much-needed help. El Niño is a natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that shifts global weather patterns, and…
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