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Article: Drought, political instability threaten 12 million in southern Africa.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- July 11, 2002
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Byline: Laurie Goering
JOHANNESBURG _ Drought combined with deepening poverty, a runaway AIDS crisis and economic mismanagement have put more than 12 million southern Africans at risk for starvation and could kill 300,000 in the next six months unless Western donors respond quickly, the United Nations warned Thursday.
Half of those endangered live in Zimbabwe, once a major African food producer but now a nation embroiled in political crisis, including a bitterly controversial land redistribution effort that is forcing the country's white farmers from their fields even as shops run short of staple cornmeal.
Southern Africa has long had cycles of ...