Eating dirt in Madagascar to escape hunger | AFP

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Eating dirt in Madagascar to escape hunger | AFP


In the drought-ravaged south of Madagascar, people are eating white clay mixed with tamarind to cope with famine. Half of the population in the southern region of the Indian Ocean island — 1.5 million people — is currently in need of emergency food aid, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). Around 31 million euros ($37.6 million) are…

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33 Comments

  1. Sadly theres no place for a tribe like this nowadays aside from getting aid. They have no resources and not many people to trade with left.

    Teach them how to farm, and get them on some better land and at least they wouldnt be hungry

  2. Western BS! We eat this all over africa in different way definitely out of hunger. It is just to treat. But western like these types of racist narratives

  3. There is no such a thing as " Climate change "! Madagascar already had Marxist communist government in the past and destroyed the little economy they had! Those NGO and UN are pushing a satanic agenda! There is plenty of food in Madagascar!!!!

  4. Imagine being such an animal that you see starving toddlers eat mud and instead of helping, you take out your fancy cameras and start filming. Journalists are the lowest of the low. Truly hope the worst on you.