According to the World Meteorological Organization, precipitation is expected to remain low in March-May this year, during the rainy season in the "Horn of Africa" region of East Africa, and the persistent high temperatures will evaporate more
author:Bureau of Earth Knowledge
According to the World Meteorological Organization, precipitation is expected to remain low in March-May this year, during the rainy season in East Africa's "Horn of Africa" region, and persistent heat will evaporate more heat. This has led to six consecutive years of unsatisfactory precipitation in the "Horn of East Africa" bringing water and food crises. The disaster will be worse than the drought of 2013, when 260,000 people died in Somalia alone.
Drought in the region will also increase the rate of desert locust breeding, making locust plagues worse in East Africa, the Middle East and even South Asia. In the spring of 2020, locust control personnel were unable to go to the front line due to movement restrictions, causing desert locusts to cross the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Hormuz, causing huge losses to agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and the Ganges River Basin of India.
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