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In climate news, the United Nations Children’s Fund is warning that a severe drought affecting large swaths of southern Africa is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of children. Lesotho is the latest country to declare a state of national food disaster, following Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. UNICEF warns more than 270,000 children across the region are expected to suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in 2024, which is on track to break last year’s record as the hottest year in human history.

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