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The 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought is a drought that hit the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The rainy season of 2022 was recorded to be the driest in over 40 years, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with an estimated 43,000 in Somalia dying in 2022.
In a dry river bed in Kenya's arid northwest, pastoralists dig ever-deeper pits in an anxious search for water, as the region suffers its worst drought in 40 years, which has wiped out livestock ...
Climate change in Kenya is increasingly impacting the lives of Kenya's citizens and the environment. [4] Climate change has led to more frequent extreme weather events like droughts which last longer than usual, irregular and unpredictable rainfall, flooding and increasing temperatures.
Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region. [7] Said to be "the worst in 60 years", [8] the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people. [6]
During Kenya's colonial era (1895–1963), elephant and rhino hunting was viewed as an elite sport by British colonizers. [9] Post-independent Kenya saw a decrease in over half of the elephant population during the period of 1970 to 1977, [10] even though the country banned elephant hunting in 1973. In 1977, all animal hunting was banned in Kenya.
A drought in East Africa began in 2021 and further intensified in 2022, precipitated in part by the oncoming La Niña in 2022. [38] [140] Three rainy seasons failed in the Horn of Africa, destroying crops and killing large herds of livestock. [38] In Somalia, five rainy seasons have failed, Kenya and Sudan were also strongly affected. [14]
Parkeru Ntereka lost almost half of his goat herd to hungry lions that wandered into his pen located near Kenya’s iconic Amboseli national park. The 56-year-old’s loss made headlines in the ...
In 2006, an acute shortage of food affected the countries in the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia), as well as northeastern Kenya.The United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated on January 6, 2006, that more than 11 million people in these countries may be affected by an impending widespread famine, largely attributed to a severe drought, and exacerbated by ...