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Famine In Southern Africa - The Facts
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... Famine In Southern Africa - The Facts In these times of hunger, it is difficult to tell if anyone is home. No goats graze in the yard. No cooking fires burn. No talking or laughter is heard. Lepu's family sits motionless on the stoop of her mud hut. With their ragged clothes and listless eyes, they look like castaways, adrift in an open sea of despair. "The situation in my house is not good," offered Lepu, a withered mother with 12 people to feed. On good days, she serves them one meal of chicken feed. On bad days, her children go without food. Most days are bad. "My children wash out the pot and put it in on the fire and expect me to cook something," she said. "I must tell them there's no food." It's a refrain being heard in millions of households across southern Africa this year as the














