The Havoc El Nino Is Causing in Parched Southern Africa
Corn grain for sale at a market in the Mbare district of Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 11.
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El Nino and the dry and hot weather it’s brought is withering crops, igniting inflation and affecting government and monetary policy across a swath of southern Africa.