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Caribbean & Central America - September 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
REGION: Severe drought hits Central America
Up to 2.8m people are struggling to feed themselves as a severe drought continues to blight Central America, according to a United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (UNWFP) report released on 4 September. The “dry corridor” of Central America, including southern Guatemala, northern Honduras, central Nicaragua and western El Salvador, has been particularly hard-hit by low rainfall linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon. In August, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) warned that the area may require the highest level of humanitarian assistance since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
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