More than 40million People are facing Severe Food Insecurity in Southern Africa

"Across southern Africa, more than 40 million people are facing severe food insecurity – a crisis that, despite its severity, has frequently been eclipsed by more visible humanitarian disasters elsewhere in the world.



2017 will mark the third year of this drought, which was touched off by a super-sized El Niño in late 2014. Although El Niño – a periodic warming of the surface water of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that flip-flops weather patterns in much of the world – is natural, experts say that as the climate warms, it’s likely to continue growing more extreme."