Mafeteng

For Lesotho farmer Setsabo Mothibeli it has been too long since the rain came, as he stands desolately among dried maize stalks in the barren field he should have been harvesting. Like many subsistence farms in the small Southern African mountain kingdom, his fields would have fed about 15 people.

The worst drought in more than a decade is sweeping through Southern Africa, destroying crops, driving up food prices and leaving millions hungry — even as foreign assistance dries up. The World Food Programme is still short -million to feed 6,5-million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.