Shoe leather and locusts eaten in horrific drought

Gary Clayton  |  World
Date posted:  1 Jun 2022
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Shoe leather and locusts eaten in horrific drought

MAF Pilot Ryan Unger (bottom picture) helps those suffering in the drought (top picture)

Facing its worst drought in 40 years, food and water in Madagascar are so costly at the moment that reports are coming in of communities eating locusts, leaves, clay and even shoe leather to survive, the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) says.

MAF writes: UNICEF says that half a million children under the age of five will be ‘acutely malnourished’ this year, with a further 110,000 facing ‘severe malnourishment’.

In the south, where 80% of the population depends on agriculture to survive, roughly 15 million people face hunger.

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