If you are thinking about travelling to Lesotho, Swaziland,
Angola or remote parts in South Africa and Mozambique, it may be worth
looking at your itinerary and possibly re-routing. The World Food Programme
(WFP) recently warned at a Johannesburg conference that 12.8 million people
are on the brink of starvation in southern Africa and urgently need food
aid.

Crops have failed across the region due to drought, floods
and political breakdown. Hundreds have already died in Malawi but Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho are also badly hit.
The whole Southern African region needs 1.2 million tonnes in emergency
aid and about 4 million tonnes to make it through the year, according
to the WFP and the UN's food agency.