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Can famine be checked as Africa faces its worst crisis since the 1980s? Posted: 30 Jul 2017 09:00 AM PDT For as long as she can remember, Vaha Saajinuru, a wiry middle-aged woman with an expressive face, spent much of each day in exhausting drudgery, fetching water. Living on the parched, drought-stricken south coast of Madagascar, she had to make the journey four or five times a day: out of her village, down a cactus-lined dirt road, and across thorny grassland to a muddy water pit more than a mile from her home. Recommended: Think you know Africa?

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