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Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in southeastern Ethiopia. The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades is pushing 20 million people towards starvation, according to the UN, destroying herders' age-old way of life and leaving many children suffering from severe malnutrition as it rips families apart.
A lack of rain linked to climate change has led to Italy's worst drought in 70 years. Euronews' Julian Gomez visited three of north Italy's most badly affected regions to see for himself both the economic and environmental cost.
Three South African provinces are battling the worst locust plague they've seen in 25 years. More than twenty thousand hectares of agricultural land has been devoured by brown locusts in the Eastern Cape alone. The outbreak follows seven years of the worst drought recorded in the country's history. FRANCE 24's team report.
Millions of people face severe hunger in the Horn of Africa as the worst drought in more than 40 years could extend to a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the United Nations and humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday.
Four consecutive seasons of poor rains have left millions of drought-stricken people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia facing starvation, UN aid agencies and meteorologists say, warning that the October to December rainy season "could also fail".
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