UN: famine threatens 14 million people

rome - Hunger threatens more than 14 million people in southern Africa because of the weather phenomenon El Niño less food can be produced. Previously warned the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations Monday.

According to the WFP threatens the number of people with insufficient food to rise further in 2016, because the region is facing severe drought. The most affected by low rainfall last year were Malawi (2.8 million people at risk of hunger), Madagascar (nearly 1.9 million) and Zimbabwe (1.5 million), where the harvest last year, only the was half of the year before , said the UN program.

Food prices in South Africa have risen sharply due to the scarcity. I am particularly concerned about small farmers who can not harvest enough for themselves to eat, let alone that they can sell some to pay school fees and household needs , said WFP Director ertharin cousin against Al-Jazeera.