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Two million face hunger in Dry Corridor

Monday, August 12, 2019


U.N. agencies report more than two million people in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are struggling to feed their families as crops fail for the fifth consecutive year due to erratic weather patterns.

Five years of drought and excessive rains have decimated maize and bean crops in the Dry Corridor of Central America, the Voice of America reports.