Overall Orange alert Drought for Zambezi Basin-2024
in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Event summary

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

GDACS ID DR 1016878
Name: Zambezi Basin-2024
Glide number: DR-2024-000018-ZMB
Countries: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Start Date: End of Dec 2023
Duration: 218 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 344598 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 131 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Southern Africa: Southern African Drought - Extreme Hardship, Hopefull ... 2024-07-26T13:55+0200.

Johannesburg, South Africa Heading into the traditional dry period of winter in southern Africa, there was significant consternation due to the drastically below average rainfall the region has been experiencing since January 2024. Countrie
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Southern African Drought: Extreme Hardship, Hopefully Only in the Shor ... 2024-07-23T17:07+0200.

Countries, including Botswana, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, have only received less than 20 percent of the rainfall that they usually receive in the month of February. The driest January/February period in 40 years, acco
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Zambia, l’inflazione sale ancora: prezzi al consumo a giugno a +15,2%. ... 2024-06-27T12:29+0200.

L’inflazione nello Zambia tocca il livello più alto degli ultimi 29 mesi, mentre la nazione dell’Africa meridionale continua a combattere gli effetti di una siccità indotta da El Niño, la peggiore in quasi sessant’anni. Il periodo di siccit
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India and Kenya forge alliance to expand Africa’s space capabilities i ... 2024-06-27T07:53+0200.

India has expressed interest in exploring areas of partnership and seeking avenues of collaboration with Kenya in developing and expanding Africa’s space capabilities for predicting and monitoring extreme weather events. Speaking at the Ken
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Analytical report

19/Apr/2024 09:39 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),