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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.
Food insecurity caused be droughts from 2014 to 2022 affected approximately 3.4 million people while in 2018, about 500,000 people lost access to water. [34] With a population of 48.5 million people, [35] Kenya is the largest economy in East and Central Africa, and serves as a diplomatic, communications, financial and trade hub within the region.
National Tree Growing Day is a public holiday in Kenya. [1] It was inaugurated on November 13, 2023 by Interior Cabinet Secretary, Kithure Kindiki, in accordance with a gazette notice issued on November 6, 2023. [2] This announcement made Kenya the first and only nation to declare a public holiday for this purpose.
It was a year characterized by extreme drought. From North America to Africa to Europe to Asia, huge swaths of the planet were parched in 2022. 2022 was the year of drought
About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc SADC said on Saturday. Heads of ...
Northern Kenya experienced the worst drought in 40 years that left 4.4 million people acutely food insecure, with 1.2 million facing emergency hunger levels. [57] [58] The U.N. Development Program said rising food and energy prices caused by COVID-19 and the Russian war in Ukraine hit Sub-Saharan Africa hardest. Kenyan chapati makers are ...
The annual inflation rate had risen to 676% in March 2020, and there was a bleak economic outlook due to the effects of a drought in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic. [203] In 2022, the country experienced another period of high inflation, which jumped to 131.7% in May from 96.4% in April. [204]
In response, the government began a massive intervention in the private sector. ... in 2009, due to drought and the global financial crisis, ... As of 2022, Kenya's ...