Hunger stalks Lesotho farmers


Dried-up crops near Polanka’s home in Lipelaneng, Butha-Buthe district. According to the government around 700,000 people are fighting hunger. — AFP

IN a parched village in southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a farmer tramps through his dusty plot and pulls desiccated stalks and roots from the dry earth.

The plot once fed Daniel Phoofolo’s family, with enough produce left over to sell.

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