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The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain
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07 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain Rain. Drought. Hailstorms. Tornadoes. Frost. You'd be hard-pressed to name a weather phenomenon that hasn't afflicted the African kingdom of Lesotho in recent times, destroying its crops and leaving one-third of its 2.1 million people on the brink of starvation. Now, many scientists are saying that those people, along with nearly 40 million other Africans fac ... |
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| Topics: Africa, climate, food and agriculture, population (all these topics) |
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