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“El Niño is a true rural catastrophe,” said Jose Felix Lafaurie, president of the Colombian Federation of Cattle (Fedegan) a week , while indicating that the animals have died of thirst and, therefore, the sector’s losses are more 850 billion.…
Haiti’s third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food-insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday. Some 3.6…
The international community has just three weeks to provide $245 million in emergency food aid to help prevent a potentially catastrophic escalation in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases in drought-afflicted parts of Ethiopia from the end of April when the…
As South Africa shoulders its own major water crisis, other countries in the region haven’t been spared the hardships of the El Niño-induced drought. In Zimbabwe, reports say around 7,000 cattle have died in its southern provinces. The…
A punishing heatwave is wreaking havoc in Zimbabwe, giving airline pilots a torrid time and literally sapping the energy out of a country that has seen its hydro-electric reservoir evaporate in the scorching heat. As the El Niño phenomenon…
Fourteen patients in an intensive care unit in the southern Indian city of Chennai have died, taking the death toll in rain-related incidents to 325. Water had entered the basement of the private hospital, causing disruptions to generators, ventilators…
Parts of Germiston in Gauteng ran out of water on Tuesday as the heatwave and drought in the area combined to put the water supply under severe strain. The City of Johannesburg earlier this week enforced level two water…
Tanzania has cut its power generation by up to 250 megawatts, resulting in electricity rationing, after water levels in its hydro dams dropped following a drought, the energy ministry said on Wednesday. Businesses say frequent power outages are hurting…
Extra water tankers have been called in to supply more water since the severe heatwave hit Pretoria last week. DA ward councillor Bronwyn Engelbrecht said on Sunday, that she had called in the assistance of three extra water tankers.…
