Droughts, cyclones, hurricanes, flooding

Question 1

Impacts of a drought on an area or country you have studied.

Answer 1

East Africa

July 2011

Covers Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan

Deaths: 50,000 and 100,000 people

Crop failures + livestock deaths –> rising food prices + famine

920,000 refugees forced to leave Somalia

Diseases: Increase measles + malaria outbreaks refugee camps
due to people living outside and in tents

increase in sexual violence committed against refugees –> risk of contracting HIV