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Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade: Indonesia: 50,000 [157] 1966–1967 Rice crisis [158] Burma: 1967–1970: Famine caused by Nigerian Civil War and blockade: Biafra: 2,000,000: 1968–1972: Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people [159] Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger and ...
The persistent drought around 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Classic Maya civilization, and the famine of One Rabbit (AD 1454) was a major catastrophe in Mexico. [117] Brazil's 1877–78 Grande Seca (Great Drought), the worst in Brazil's history, [118] caused approximately half a million deaths. [119] The one from 1915 was devastating ...
87 people (including 78 firefighters) killed and several towns destroyed across north Idaho and western Montana. ~2,000 separate blazes burned an area the size of Connecticut in what is believed to have been the largest fire in recorded U.S. history up to that point, although it has since been exceeded by the 2011 Texas wildfires and the 2020 ...
The Grande Seca (English: Great Drought), or the Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, was the largest and most devastating drought in Brazilian history. [2] It caused the deaths of between 400,000 and 500,000 people.
The drought has reached Botswana and Angola to the west, and Mozambique and Madagascar to the east. ... especially for the world's most vulnerable people. In Mangwe, the young and the old lined up ...
The U.S. has droughts in every state except Alaska and Kentucky — the greatest number in history, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. According to the tracker, just more than 45 percent of ...
The Golubev and Dronin report gives the following table of the major droughts in Russia between 1900 and 2000. [1]: 16 Mass famines were reported in years of drought in the 1920s and 1930s, and the last one occurred in 1984. [1]: 23 Central: 1920, 1924, 1936, 1946, 1984. Southern: 1901, 1906, 1921, 1939, 1948, 1995. Eastern: 1911, 1931.