Overall Red alert Drought for Eastern Africa-2019
in Kenya

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 5 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1013021
Name: Eastern Africa-2019
Countries: Kenya
Start Date: End of Feb 2019
Duration: 146 days
Impact: Severe impact for agricultural drought in 49202 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Let’s fight climate change 6/17/2019 11:39:00 PM.

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Atoyac: bendición o maldición 6/9/2019 5:28:00 PM.

LA CIÉNEGA ZIMATLÁN, Oax.- La escasez y el exceso de las lluvias se ha convertido en una disyuntiva en esta comunidad de los Valles Centrales, sobre todo, en las tierras que se localizan en las partes bajas, cercanas al río Atoyac. “Rogamos
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Famine in Somalia could cause more than 2 million deaths, UN says 6/7/2019 10:37:00 AM.

More than two million people could die from starvation in Somalia by September if international assistance is not urgently provided in the war-scarred east African nation, the United Nations said this week. Mark Lowcock, UN undersecretary g
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Mobilisation Needed for Climate-Related Disasters 6/5/2019 8:37:00 AM.

“UNHCR and humanitarian partners fear that severe climatic conditions combined with armed conflict and protracted displacement could push the country into a far bigger humanitarian emergency,” said UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch. As a resu
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Analytical report

17/Apr/2019 09:27 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),