GUINEA: Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals
February 21, 2009
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GUINEA: Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals
http://www.irinnews.org
20 February 2009
DAKAR, 20 February 2009 (IRIN) – Near-freezing temperatures in north-central Guinea in January destroyed crops and livestock on which thousands of people depend for food as well as cash.
Elderly locals told IRIN they had never seen cold this intense in Mali, a town in Guinea’s Labé region.