{"id":3044,"date":"2019-06-11T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"drought-in-africa-leaves-45-million-in-need-across-14-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/11\/drought-in-africa-leaves-45-million-in-need-across-14-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought In Africa Leaves 45 Million In Need Across 14 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By The New Humanitarian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Failed rains across eastern Africa, southern Africa, and\nthe Horn of Africa are seeing another dire season for farmers, increasing food\nprices and driving up the aid needs of tens of millions of already vulnerable\npeople across the three regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All told, more than 45\nmillion people will struggle to find enough food across 14 countries in 2019,\nmany feeling the compounded effects of years of drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second time in\nthree years that an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/zimbabwe\/fao-2019-humanitarian-appeal-201819-el-ni-o-response-plan-southern-africa\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>&nbsp;event has\ndisrupted weather patterns. In 2017 \u2013 a year in which the UN labelled the\ncrisis the worst in decades \u2013 some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/feature\/2017\/03\/17\/drought-africa-2017\">38 million people<\/a>&nbsp;were in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drought again in 2018\nwas followed by significantly below-average rains at the beginning of this year\n\u2013 down by 50 percent in parts of southern Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/analysis\/2019\/06\/10\/drought-africa-2019-45-million-in-need\">original story<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/\">The\nNew Humanitarian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The New Humanitarian Failed rains across eastern Africa, southern Africa, and the Horn of Africa are seeing another dire season for farmers, increasing food prices and driving up the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}