Oshivelo — A desperate plea for immediate government assistance has rung out from the scorched and wilted maize and mahangu fields north of Oshivelo in the Otjikoto Region.

MORE than 20,000 residents of Magadi risk starvation if they do not receive immediate food assistance, area MCA Peter Pariken said yesterday.

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BAJURA: Although locals of 11 VDCs have been facing acute food crisis for the last two months, they are yet to be supplied with rice in the northern part of Bajura.

Death toll in Tharparkar from drought continued to go up as a total of 59 children had so far been a victim of acute starvation.

Alittle girl balances a bag of donated rice on her head as she begs for her family of eight. Other children play in fetid, trash-clogged pools of water.