Explanation
- A
Angola and Zambia
(a) Angola and Zambia. These southern African states were not the 2017 war-famine pair in the news. This letter is not the key.
- B
Morocco and Tunisia
(b) Morocco and Tunisia. North African states, not the starvation theatres of that period. This is not the key.
- C
Venezuela and Colombia
(c) Venezuela and Colombia. Venezuela had a humanitarian and economic crisis, but the stem’s war/ethnic-conflict famine pairing in 2017–18 Prelims context is Yemen and South Sudan. This is not the key.
- D
Yemen and South Sudan
(d) Yemen and South Sudan. (d) Official key: UN agencies warned of famine and mass starvation in Yemen (war) and South Sudan (civil war), with related alerts for north-east Nigeria and Somalia. That pair is the stored key.
Summary. Official key is (d) Yemen and South Sudan. Conflict, siege and displacement produced famine-level hunger there around 2017. Angola–Zambia, Morocco–Tunisia and Venezuela–Colombia are different crises. Honour the stored letter (d).
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