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drought in africa
Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe  drought affected the entire  East Africa 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]  Many refugees from southern Somalia fled to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where crowded, unsanitary conditions together with severe  malnutrition led to a large number of deaths. [9] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> Other countries in East Africa, including  Sudan<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">,  South Sudan<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> and parts of  Uganda<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">, were also affected by a food crisis.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">Weather conditions over the <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  Pacific<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">, including an unusually strong <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  La Niña<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">, have interrupted seasonal rains for two consecutive seasons. The rains failed in 2011 in Kenya and Ethiopia, and for the previous two years in Somalia. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReliefWeb_10_June_2011_7-1" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SydneyMorningHeraldSept11_26-0" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">In many areas, the precipitation<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">rate during the main rainy season from April to June, the primary season, was less than 30% of the average of 1995–2010. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FEWS_Net_27-0" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">The lack of rain led to crop failure and widespread loss of livestock, as high as 40%–60% in some areas, which decreased milk production as well as exacerbating a poor harvest. As a result, cereal prices rose to record levels while livestock prices and wages fell, reducing purchasing power across the region. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Relief_Web_3_August_2011_famine_28-0" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">Rains were also not expected to return until September of the year. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReliefWeb_10_June_2011_7-2" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">The crisis is compounded by rebel activity around southern Somalia from the <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  Al-Shabaab<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">group. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC_News_8_July_2011_11-1" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The head of the United States Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, stated that climate change contributed to the severity of the crisis. "There's no question that hotter and drier growing conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have reduced the resiliency of these communities."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Huffington_Post_14_July_2011_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  On the other hand, two experts with the International Livestock Research Institutesuggested that it was premature to blame climate change for the drought. While there is consensus that a particularly strong La Niña contributed to the intensity of the drought, the relationship between La Niña and climate change is not well-established