The North, beset by persistent severe food shortages, has reported weeks of
drought followed by recent torrential rain in some areas which washed away
sections of a railway line.
With rugged terrain and outmoded agricultural practices, the country faces
serious difficulties in feeding its 24 million people. Hundreds of thousands
died during a famine in the mid to late-1990s.
Source: AFP
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