When it Rains it Pours

Lack of funding for the UN's World Food Program (WFP) and a poor harvest are threatening severe food shortages in Mozambique, warns the UN. After a season of half the average rainfall, heavy rains have poured in this week causing floods, killing 25 people and leaving thousands homeless.

Worsening the impact of the rain, central provinces have seen an influx of crop-destroying locusts in the past few days.