MANILA: The United Nations is keeping the alarm raised on El Nino-caused drought that may result in food shortage as well as the spread of diseases in the worst-affected areas in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, especially among people displaced by natural calamities and armed conflict.
In a report released last Friday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted that while the ongoing El Nino has affected large areas of the Philippines, the most severe damage to agriculture is concentrated in Mindanao.