2011 East Africa drought

When

Jul 2011 – Feb 2012

Kind

Famine

Coordinates

9.83° N, 49.17° E

Description

severe drought that occurred between July 2011 and mid-2012

Deaths

258001

Placed at the coordinates of its Wikipedia articles (2 of 2 languages agree).

Natural disaster

Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region. Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people.

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• Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over 30 years”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Crisis alimentaria en el Cuerno de África: la Organización de las Naciones Unidas declara formalmente la existencia de una situación de hambruna en dos…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page