Famine affecting Africa's Sahel & Senegal river area
2010 Sahel famine
Type
A famine, ending in a heavy rain storm
Formed
3 April[1]
Dissipated
18 September.[2]
Highest temperature
49.7 °C (121.3 °F) on 22 June, in Dongola, Sudan[3]
Fatalities
9 confirmed, 42 indirectly, 20 unconfirmed
Areas affected
Sahel
The Sahel forms a belt up to 1000 km wide, spanning Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.A map of the Sénégal River drainage basin.The vegetation in the Sahel follows seasonal rainfall. In March, during the dry season, rainfall and lush vegetation don't extend north of the Gulf of Guinea. September brings rain and vegetation into the Sahel as far north as the northern edge of Lake Chad. Photographs from Senegal show the difference in vegetation between the dry (left) and wet (right) seasons.
A large-scale, drought-induced famine occurred in Africa's Sahel region and many parts of the neighbouring Sénégal River Area from February to August 2010. It is one of many famines to have hit the region in recent times.[4]
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the north of Africa and the Sudanian savannas in the south, covering an area of 3,053,200 square kilometres. It is a transitional ecoregion of semi-arid grasslands, savannas, steppes, and thorn shrublands.[5]
The neighbouring Sénégal River Area contains various vegetation types and covers parts or all of Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and Guinea. It has also had very low rainfall over the last year according to the UN, NGOs and the Senegal River Basin Development Authority.[6][7] Sudan set a new temperature record of 49.7 °C (121.3 °F) on 22 June, in the town of Dongola.[3]
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^ abMasters, Jeff. "NOAA: June 2010 the globe's 4th consecutive warmest month on record". Weather Underground. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
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"Sahelian Acacia savanna". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
^ACT Alert: Food Insecurity in Mauritania due to Drought situation in the Sahel region Archived 3 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Reuters AlertNet
^ACT Preliminary Appeal: Food insecurity in Mauritania due to Drought in the Sahel region Archived 25 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine AlertNet
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