21.   Israel said regional drought has severely affected its reserves.

22.   Recent flooding along the Zambezi River damaged crops in central provinces, and drought has affected people in the south.

23.   Shows drought affected towns, soundbite from Cardoso and peasants.

24.   The drought has affected large areas of the Philippines.

25.   The drought affected the whole country, while the worst forest fires were confined to Kalimantan and Sumatra.

26.   The long drought has severely affected the harvest of sweet potatoes, the local staple.

27.   The Interior Ministry estimates that almost one-quarter of villages nationwide will be affected by drought this year.

28.   They predicted droughts will affect countries such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

29.   Thousands of Afghans will be severely affected by drought, and recovery will be difficult because of a significant reduction in planting crops, he said.

30.   Thousands of hectares of corn fields in the regencies of Flores Timur, Kupang, Timur Tengah Selatan, Ende, and Ngada have been affected by drought.