Sunday 14 December 2014

'Creeping humanitarian crisis' in drought-hit Central America: UN

CLIMATE SCIENCE
'Creeping humanitarian crisis' in drought-hit Central America: UN
Geneva (AFP) Dec 12, 2014 - A drawn-out drought in Central America has pushed some 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador into food insecurity, the UN warned Friday. The drought in the three countries is "turning into a creeping humanitarian crisis," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN's humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva. Subsistence farmers, farm labourers and low-income families were ... more


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