Zambia Urged to Declare Emergency After Worst Drought Since 1981
- Disaster declaration would enable donors to provide food aid
- Neighboring Zimbabwe has already declared a national emergency
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The British government urged Zambia to declare a food emergency to allow donors to provide assistance after the worst drought in nearly four decades hit farm output and left millions of people facing hunger.
A Southern Africa Development Community report last month forecast 2.3 million Zambians will be food insecure by March, after large parts of the southern and western areas of the country received the lowest rainfall since at least 1981. Over the same period, the report forecast Zambia would have an 888,000-ton cereal deficit.