SWAZILAND: Floods wash away the drought(1 day ago) After two decades of drought the urgent prayers in Swaziland's annual incwala ceremony, a month-long ritual in
which ancestral spirits are petitioned for good rains, have been answered with weeks of torrential downpours. Floods now threaten food security.
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