Guatemala City, Sept 17, 2026 (AFP) - Guatemala to provide food aid as El Nino causes severe drought

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2026-09-17

Guatemala will provide food assistance to more than one million families living through drought due to the powerful El Nino weather pattern, the government announced Wednesday. El Nino raises surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and causes global changes in winds and rainfall as well as erratic weather conditions. This year's iteration, billed as the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago, ha......

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