ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured the drought near the border of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.
More than 24 million people in southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity due to drought and floods in February and March, 2024. The warning from Oxfam on Wednesday came as Zimbabwe joined other southern African nations in declaring its drought a national disaster, following earlier declarations by Zambia and Malawi. Southern Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change despite being responsible for only a tiny portion of global planet-heating pollution. As southern Africa enters its traditional dry season from April, vast parts of the region including Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have already been grappling with a prolonged dry spell. From late January to February, rainfall levels were reported to be the lowest in at least 40 years.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Copernicus EU’s Tweet
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