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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 ...
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Afghanistan drought Afghanistan: 1972–1973: Famine in Ethiopia caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule: Ethiopia: 60,000 [159] 1973 Darfur drought Darfur, Sudan: 1,000: 1974: Bangladesh famine of 1974 [160] Bangladesh: 27,000 – 1,500,000 ...
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin is the largest watershed in the world, ... and 13 of the world’s most intense droughts observed by the satellites have occurred since January 2015.
The U.S. drought monitor has four levels of drought - moderate, severe, extreme, exceptional. They release their findings every Thursday as an update on what the country is facing in terms of ...
More than 150 million people in the country and 149.8 million in the lower 48 states are affected by drought this week, a 34.4 percent increase since last week and a 153.5 percent increase since ...
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.
1839 Severe drought in the west and north of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. 1846 Severe drought converted the interior and far north of South Australia into an arid desert. 1849 Sydney received about 27 inches less rain than normal. 1850 Severe drought, with big losses of livestock across inland New South Wales and around the western rivers region.