Drought in southern Africa

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The UN warns: Drought in southern Africa could be the worst in 100 years

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Carsten Thomsen




The drought currently affecting southern Africa could be the worst in the last 100 years.

Lola Castro, Southern Africa Area Manager for the World Food Programme (WFP), told AFP.

The small kingdom of Lesotho is the latest in a series to declare national disaster. It follows Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. And other countries such as Angola and Mozambique may soon find themselves in the same situation.

"The maize is completely dry and not grown at all, and people are struggling to feed their families," said Lola Castro, who warned that a famine was imminent in the region.

The drought has destroyed 70 percent of the harvest in Zambia and 80 percent in Zimbabwe.

- And the worst period is coming now, she says, and reminds that the next harvest will not come until April next year.

[Joe 90]

While In little Orania...

'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming | Cities | The Guardian

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So lets send 'em more western aid for their fat leaders to spend on gold plated bathtaps, shopping trips to dubai and private jets.

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So lets send 'em more western aid for their fat leaders to spend on gold plated bathtaps, shopping trips to dubai and private jets.

They already have that stuff.

After what I hear it's nothing to joke about really

[Joe 90]

Where's Bono and Geldoff when they need them.

[BLD]

Where's Bono and Geldoff when they need them.

[david44]

So what's the solution I doubt the Thai will welcome them unless thay bring all their gold and diamonds , Neither European colonialism nor Belt and road have dealt with the blights of religion, famine, drought and of course corruption, maybe it's karma they swopped white and arab slave masters for black ones.Apart from diamond rich Botswana its as bad as here.

Once their drones replace the refugee boats we'll find out.

[taxexile]

They already have that stuff.

After what I hear it's nothing to joke about really

We are just humans, insignificant little creatures in the greater scheme of things as controlled by nature.

We cannot, despite the high opinion we have of our abilities, control the climate, the food supply, or natural events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, pandemics or tsunamis.

Many populations will suffer, just as they have always done throughout history.

Life is not fair. It never has been and it never will be, the fittest species will survive longer that the unfit. Natural selection will see to it.

[baldrick]

So lets send 'em more western aid for their fat leaders to spend on gold plated bathtaps, shopping trips to dubai and private jets

I think by their laws , americans are allowed to send donations to trump

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68 million suffer from drought in southern Africa

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Karen Klærke




Around 68 million people in southern Africa are suffering from drought intensified by the El Niño weather phenomenon.

This corresponds to 17 percent of the population in the region, according to SADC, the Southern African Development Community, according to the news agency Reuters.

The drought began in early 2024 and has affected crops and livestock production, leading to food shortages and hurting the economy.

It is the worst drought in southern Africa in years due to the combination of El Niño and higher average temperatures as a result of climate change.

Countries such as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi have declared the hunger crisis a state of disaster and Lesotho and Namibia have called for humanitarian aid, writes Reuters.

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if the human race cannot control its own propensity to overpopulate a planet running out of resources, then nature will take the appropriate action to restore a balance.

floods, droughts, heat, cold, monkey pox, covid, etc.etc.

[malmomike77]

^ & ^^ could not give a fuk, nature innit, just a shame Sausages wasn't born a coon in namibia

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nature

nature innit

So you reckon Willy won't be able to get his T-Bones ?

Nah; there'll be a shortage of homegrown food supply.

Prices will go up; supply and demand.

Poor folks will start use what they needed for sowing their fields and they'll be screwed.

Money men will then take over the farmlands.

Pure capitalism.

You'll be able to eat all the T-Bones that you can afford....and you can watch people die from starvation for dessert.

My nature allows me to feel empathy with parents who can't offer food for their starving kids.

Most parents will feel like that

[malmomike77]

So you reckon Willy won't be able to get his T-Bones ?

he'll get MonkeyPox

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he'll get MonkeyPox

Nope

Better off folks has the vaccine


Nature, I guess

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My nature allows me to feel empathy with parents who can't offer food for their starving kids.

if you cant feed 'em, dont breed 'em.

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if you cant feed 'em, dont breed 'em.

Are you up to date on the situation among poor people in the 3. world ?

[harrybarracuda]

if the human race cannot control its own propensity to overpopulate a planet running out of resources, then nature will take the appropriate action to restore a balance.

floods, droughts, heat, cold, monkey pox, covid, etc.etc.

Funny you should say that...

The Lancet: Dramatic declines in global fertility rates set to transform global population patterns by 2100 | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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harry, the dinosaurs, once top of the foodchain were wiped out, but life carried on, just not for the dinosaurs, and eventually humans evolved but one day we humans, top of the food chain at the moment will also be wiped out thanks to disease, low birth rates, floods, pestilence who knows what, but life in one form or another will carry on. nothing has a free pass, but the planet will survive.

we are powerless to do anything to alter events, however much we think we are the invincible top bollocks and however much that loon landreth and others protest.

so turn your air con up to 11, buy that 6 litre V8, eat meat every day and stop signalling your virtue by sitting in the road and blocking traffic , because nothing you or i or anyone else does will will make any difference whatsoever.

species come, exist for a few millenia and then die out to be replaced by another species. humans are nothing special. ants and microbes are, but who would want to be an ant or a microbe. that would be no fun at all.

[bsnub]

just a shame Sausages wasn't born a coon in namibia

Oh my.

[malmomike77]

Oh my.

Can you PM DrMonkeypox and askhimfoeasoacebar

[baldrick]

if you cant feed 'em, dont breed 'em.

if you don't have a old age safety net you only option is to raise children to care for you in your old age - but your first world experience does not encompass these realities

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^
thats true.

but if in this overpopulated world there is not enough food or water to go around, and only by harming the environment can we increase food production, and of course the production of everything else needed to satisfy the needs of populations (plastics, gadgets, transportation, planes, fuel, clothing, medicines, housing, concrete, steel etc.etc.etc.) where does that leave (a) the planet and (b) the people. surely a choice has to be made. the resources of the planet will not be able to sustain the ever growing populations.

it wont end well.

[baldrick]

but it is first world countries that allow this corruption and mismanagement to happen - all this money that is stolen is banked in western countries and in 2024 they know exactly when all the cash is

they could be fcuking with them if they wanted , except that for geopolitical reason and corporate capture of policy they do not restrain the avarice of the trough feeders

[MarilynMonroe]

After what I hear it's nothing to joke about really

No, it is terribly horrific that these people may die if they don't get rain.

I was reading that 10.7 million people face severe hunger in East Africa.
They are used to moving to where the rains are, but there hasn't been any rain.

Drought in East Africa: “If the rains do not come, none of us will survive” | Oxfam International


Many diseases as well especially for children because of malnutrition. Gosh, I feel bad as we are getting so much rain this summer. El Nino is causing havoc around the world.