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TSHOLOTSHO,
Zimbabwe (PAMACCNews)
- Another drought is sweeping across Zimbabwe triggering food and water
desperation. But maize and cattle farmer, Sophie Sibanda (63), is still
hopeful for miracle rains to save her cattle at least but not her sun-scorched
crop.
"I will not get anything" Sibanda says of the uneven mottle
maize crop that she planted more out of habit than careful planning. Most farmers
in the Southern part of the country have not planted this season owing to a
drought, induced by the El Nino phenomenon already underway. An El Nino event occurs when the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean
warm, changing global rain patterns.
