Tag: weather-pattern
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Drought may affect 49 million in southern Africa: WFP
As many as 49 million people in southern Africa could be affected by a drought that has been worsened by the most severe and longest El Nino weather pattern in 35 years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. The WFP, which has already said 14 million people face hunger in the…
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Missiles hit school and hospital in Syrian border town, 14 dead: residents
At least 14 civilians were killed when missiles hit a children's hospital, a school and other locations in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border on Monday, a medic and two residents said. Tens of thousands of people have fled to the town, the last rebel stronghold before the border with Turkey,…