Lesotho: Tens of thousands ‘one step away from famine’ as drought impacts harvests and UN launches flash appeal

20 December 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in an appeal for funds.
The $34 million flash appeal will support more than 260,000 people “with lifesaving interventions” until April next year, Jens Laerke from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told journalists in Geneva.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1054081

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