Reuters: WFP says 16 mln face hunger in southern Africa, emergency looms
“Almost 16 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and that number could climb to almost 50 million, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday…” (Stoddard, 3/4).

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