There’s an urgent need to put water higher on South Africa’s agenda. ... but the dams are full: what’s gone wrong ... There were also restrictions during the drought in 2015-2017.

Because many reservoirs are powered by electric pumps, high levels of scheduled power outages, or “load shedding” as it’s known in South Africa, have also cause low water levels at reservoirs.

MANGWE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep ...

They're aiming to help some of the 2.7 million people in rural Zimbabwe threatened with hunger because of the drought that has enveloped large parts of southern Africa since late 2023.

South Africa, and particularly Johannesburg, is not water-scarce. This could change quite rapidly if “we were to experience a day-zero type drought” — but the city is “currently very water ...

South Africa will issue import permits for genetically engineered white and yellow corn from the US after a mid-summer drought that caused 23% drop in local production.

In southern Africa, an estimated 9 million people, half of them children, need help in Malawi.More than 6 million in Zambia, 3 million of them children, are impacted by the drought, UNICEF said.