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As Drought Slashes Rice Harvest, 900,000 Face Hunger in Sri Lanka

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The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into acute food insecurity, the World Food Program (WFP) says. An unpublished survey conducted by government agencies and relief organizations in February found that both food insecurity and debt were rising sharply among families hit by drought, the WFP office in Sri Lanka confirmed to Reuters. The country's rice harvest could be the worst in 40 years, charity Save the Children predicted. The just-completed...

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