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Save the Children: Climate Crisis Causing Hunger for Millions of Africans

Henry Ridgwell

   LONDON - Millions of people in southern and eastern Africa are facing
   emergency food insecurity partly caused by climate change, half of them
   children, according to the charity Save the Children. The region has
   been hit by extreme cyclones, flooding and drought in recent months and
   scientists say it is warming much faster than other parts of the world.

   Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique in March, killing more than 1,300
   people. Villages were washed away and cities inundated, while farmers
   saw their crops and livestock destroyed. The cyclone one of the biggest
   on record is estimated to have caused more than $2 billion worth of
   damage across the region.

   A month later, Mozambique was hit by another storm, Cyclone Kenneth,
   killing dozens more people. "Never before has this country been hit by
   two cyclones in the same season," says Gabriella Waaijman, the global
   humanitarian director of Save the Children.

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