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.
