East Africa drought crisis - 2011 to Now.
East African drought crisis The region of East Africa has been the ‘primary focus for various drought studies in recent years’ ( Haile et al 2019: 146) . In the last two decades, East Africa has experienced frequent drought events severe in nature causing crop failure due to low rainfall and human losses. In Somalia for example, there were around 250,000 deaths during the drought of 2010-11 because of large scale food insecurity and a lack of food supplies and in Kenya, 23 million were affected by drought – ‘the highest number of people reported to have been affected by drought in Africa for over 100 years’ (Rourke 2011: 33). I want to discuss how drought in the region of East Africa mainly in the countries of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has created a food and water crisis – it has altered the food landscape significantly as highlighted by the following quote: “This drought is leaving nothing behind. In previous droughts, we used to lose some animals, but we would always h