JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27 — Amnesty International today urged Madagascar’s government and the rest of the world to step up relief efforts for the island nation’s drought-hit south.
The months-long drought, stoked by climate change, is the worst in four decades, it said in a report released ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Glasgow. “The international community must immediately provide the people in Madagascar affected by the drought with increased humanitarian relief and additional funding for the losses and damages suffered,” said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general.
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