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The drought has exacerbated conflict in the region, with the nations pastoralists being most affected, [15] with the violence growing to such an issue that Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, deemed it a "national emergency". [16] Furthermore, a large amount of school children have had to drop out to support their families due to the ...
European Commission map of drought conditions across South America from February 2023 to January 2024.. The 2023–2024 South American drought refers to an ongoing drought across several states of Brazil in addition to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, which has led to several significant impacts including record low water levels, significant water shortages, sweeping crop failures, and widespread ...
Drought is a recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world, becoming more extreme and less predictable due to climate change, which dendrochronological studies date back to 1900. There are three kinds of drought effects, environmental, economic and social.
A Christian Aid report details climate change-linked storms, hurricanes, floods and typhoons which caused the most financial damage this year. 2024’s top 10 climate disasters cost more than 200 ...
Climate scientist Colin Kelley suggests that climate change was a significant contributor to the increased severity of the most recent drought in the region. He claims that such drought is 3 times more likely to occur due to human influence on climate and the drought have contributed to the beginning of the Syrian civil war. [41]
[1] [2] The drought is affecting 84 of the 116 districts across Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Lusaka, Northwestern, Southern, and Western provinces. Triggered by an El Niño-induced dry spell , the drought continues to have profound impacts on agriculture, water supply, and food security, affecting over a million children and households across ...
A new report from the British medical journal The Lancet finds that the effects of climate change will be more severe than we thought: Compared with 1990s levels, as many as four times as many ...
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 ]