Aerial view of the dried-up Manambovo River in Tsihombe, Madagascar in November 2022. Its dry bed is pocked with holes dug by desperate residents searching for water. Photo: DW
Aerial view of the dried-up Manambovo River in Tsihombe, Madagascar in November 2022. Its dry bed is pocked with holes dug by desperate residents searching for water. Photo: DW

By Adrian Kriesch
19 November 2022

Years of low rainfall in southern Madagascar are creating a food crisis, the UN World Food Programme has warned. DW correspondent Adrian Kriesch visited Tsiombe, where the situation is particularly dire.

Watch the video here.

Digging for water in a Madagascar riverbed