Southern Africa: World News in Brief – ‘Historic Drought’ in Southern Africa, Human Rights in Tunisia, Accountability Essential for Pakistan Mineworker Killings

Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an “historic drought” linked to last year’s El Niño, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

In an appeal for help, the World Food Programme, WFP, said that more than 27 million people’s lives from Lesotho to Zimbabwe have been devastated, leaving 21 million children malnourished.

A record five countries have declared a national disaster because of the drought and requested international assistance: Lesotho, Malawi,…