Madagascans

Tarira and her son Avoraza, 4, walk through a field covered with red sand in Anjeky Beanatara, Androy region, Madagascar, February 11, 2022. "There's nothing to harvest. That's why we have nothing to eat and we're starving," said mother-of-seven Tarira who had brought Avoraza to collect sachets of a peanut-based product known as Plumpy, used to treat malnourished children. "There are seven, so there wasn't enough food. The Plumpy wasn't enough for him". REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
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A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought

Four years of drought, the worst in decades, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the area into...