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2011 East Africa drought

Index 2011 East Africa drought

Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East Africa region. [1]

62 relations: Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Aktion Deutschland Hilft, Al-Shabaab (militant group), Amanda Lindhout, AmeriCares, Badbaado (refugee camp), Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Carlos Loret de Mola, Caryl M. Stern, Celtic F.C., Chanel Iman, Cholera outbreaks and pandemics, Climate change in Africa, Dadaab, Death and funeral of Otto von Habsburg, Death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, Denmark–Ethiopia relations, Disasters Emergency Committee, Drought, ENCA, Ethiopia, Famine, Foreign relations of Somalia, Global Enrichment Foundation, GlobalMedic, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Hawa Abdi, K'naan, Karamoja, Kenya, La Niña, List of droughts, List of famines, Makuyu, Mary's Meals, Media circus, Operation Blessing International, Operation Provide Relief, Oxfam, RedR, Sahel drought, Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties, Somalia–Turkey relations, Somalis in the United Kingdom, TCG Bozcaada (F-500), The Concert for Bangladesh (album), The Day the World Gets 'Round, The Humanitarian Coalition, Tigray Region, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2002, ..., United States Agency for International Development, World Jewish Relief, 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings, 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis, 2010 Sahel famine, 2010–12 La Niña event, 2011, 2011 Mogadishu bombing, 2011–12 Mersin İdmanyurdu season, 2012 Olympic hunger summit, 2017 Somalian drought. Expand index (12 more) »

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas (Cabdiweli Maxamed Cali; عبدالولي محمد علي), also known as Abdiweli Gaas, is a Somali American economist, professor and politician.

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Aktion Deutschland Hilft

Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V. – Bündnis deutscher Hilfsorganisationen (ADH) (Campaign Germany helps association - alliance of German aid organisations) with headquarter in Bonn is a connection of German Aid agencies for Humanitarian aid, with the target to help faster and more efficient through coordination and combination of efforts in case of a disaster and to raise Donations together.

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Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; حركة الشباب المجاهدين,; Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (lit), is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.

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Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout (born June 12, 1981) is a Canadian humanitarian, public speaker and journalist.

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AmeriCares

Americares is a non-profit disaster relief and global health organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs and supporting long-term health care initiatives for people in the United States and around the world.

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Badbaado (refugee camp)

Badbaado is a refugee camp located outside of Mogadishu, Somalia.

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Borys Wrzesnewskyj

Borys Wrzesnewskyj (born November 10, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represented riding of Etobicoke Centre in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2011.

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Carlos Loret de Mola

Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez (born October 17, 1976 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican journalist.

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Caryl M. Stern

Caryl M. Stern (born October 30, 1957) is an American author, child advocate, civil and human rights activist, and non-profit executive.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premiership.

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Chanel Iman

Chanel Iman Robinson Shepard (born December 1, 1990) is an American fashion model, known professionally as Chanel Iman.

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Cholera outbreaks and pandemics

Seven cholera pandemics have occurred in the past 200 years, with the seventh pandemic originating in Indonesia in 1961.

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Climate change in Africa

Climate change in Africa pertains to aspects of climate change within the continent of Africa.

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Dadaab

Dadaab is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya.

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Death and funeral of Otto von Habsburg

On 4 July 2011, Otto von Habsburg, also known as Otto of Austria, former head of the House of Habsburg and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1922–2007) and former Crown Prince (1916–1918) and, by pretence, Emperor-King (from 1922), of Austria-Hungary—or formally, of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria, and of Jerusalem etc.

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Death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor

The death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor is about the first journalist from Malaysia to be fatally injured while on a dangerous assignment abroad.

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Denmark–Ethiopia relations

Denmark–Ethiopia relations refers to the current and historical relations between Denmark and Ethiopia.

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Disasters Emergency Committee

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is an umbrella group of UK charities which coordinates and launches collective appeals to raise funds to provide emergency aid and rapid relief to people caught up in disasters and humanitarian crises around the world.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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ENCA

eNCA (also referred to as eNews Channel Africa) is a 24-hour television news broadcaster, owned by e.tv, focusing on South African and African stories.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.

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Foreign relations of Somalia

Foreign relations of Somalia are handled by the President as the head of state, the Prime Minister as the head of government, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Federal Government of Somalia.

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Global Enrichment Foundation

The Global Enrichment Foundation (GEF) is a humanitarian organization.

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GlobalMedic

GlobalMedic is a non-sectarian humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization based in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the operational arm of the David McAntony Gibson Foundation (DMGF), a registered Canadian charity.

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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD or Taehige; ታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ሕዳሴ ግድብ), formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as Hidase Dam, is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia that has been under construction since 2011.

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Hawa Abdi

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe (Xaawo Cabdi, حواء عبدي, born May 17, 1947) is a Somali human rights activist and physician.

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K'naan

Keinan Abdi Warsame better known by his stage name K'naan, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.

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Karamoja

Karamoja sub-region, commonly known as Karamoja, is a region in Uganda.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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La Niña

La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.

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List of droughts

This is a list of significant droughts, organized by large geographical area and then year.

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List of famines

This is a selective list of known major famines, ordered by date.

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Makuyu

Makuyu is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province.

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Mary's Meals

Mary's Meals is a registered charity, formerly known as Scottish International Relief (SIR), which sets up school feeding programmes in some of the world's poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.

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Media circus

Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event for which the level of media coverage — measured by such factors as the number of reporters at the scene and the amount of material broadcast or published — is perceived to be excessive or out of proportion to the event being covered.

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Operation Blessing International

Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) humanitarian organization founded in the United States.

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Operation Provide Relief

Operation Provide Relief was part of a United Nations-endorsed initiative called the Unified Task Force (UNITAF) to secure and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief during the Somali Civil War.

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Oxfam

Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

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RedR

RedR (pronounced 'Red R') is an international NGO whose stated mission is to “rebuild lives in times of disaster by training, supporting and providing aid workers to relief programmes across the world.” It was originally an acronym for Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief, although it is no longer used as such.

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Sahel drought

The Sahel has long experienced a series of historic droughts, dating back to at least the 17th century.

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Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties

The Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (Dutch for Cooperating Aid Organizations) is a cooperative effort of aid organizations.

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Somalia–Turkey relations

Somalia–Turkey relations are bilateral relations between Somalia and Turkey.

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Somalis in the United Kingdom

Somalis in the United Kingdom include British citizens and residents born in, or with ancestors from, Somalia.

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TCG Bozcaada (F-500)

TCG Bozcaada (F-500) is the lead ship of the six ASW corvettes of the Turkish Navy.

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The Concert for Bangladesh (album)

The Concert for Bangladesh – originally titled The Concert for Bangla Desh – is a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends, released on Apple Records in December 1971 in America and January 1972 in Britain.

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The Day the World Gets 'Round

"The Day the World Gets 'Round" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1973 album Living in the Material World.

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The Humanitarian Coalition

The Humanitarian Coalition is a coalition of Canadian non-governmental organizations consisting of Canadian Lutheran World Relief, CARE Canada, Islamic Relief Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Plan International Canada, and Save the Children Canada.

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Tigray Region

Tigray Region (Geez: ክልል ትግራይ, kilil Tigrāy; Official name: Geez:ብሔራዊ ከልላቂ መንግሥቲ ትግራይ, Bəh̩erawi Kəllelawi Mängəśti Təgray, "Tigray National Regional State") is the northernmost of the nine regions (kililat) of Ethiopia.

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2002

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2002, adopted unanimously on July 29, 2011, after recalling resolutions 733 (1992), 1519 (2003), 1558 (2004), 1587 (2004), 1630 (2005), 1676 (2006), 1724 (2006), 1744 (2007), 1766 (2007), 1772 (2007), 1801 (2008), 1811 (2008), 1844 (2008), 1853 (2008), 1862 (2009), 1907 (2009), 1916 (2010) and 1972 (2011), the Council tightened sanctions against Eritrea and Somalia to include individuals and entities recruiting or using child soldiers in the Somali Civil War, in addition to those responsible for attacks against schools and hospitals in Somalia.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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World Jewish Relief

World Jewish Relief is a British Jewish charitable organisation and is the main Jewish overseas aid organisation in the United Kingdom.

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14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings

On 14 October 2017, a massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killed at least 587 people and injured 316.

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1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia

A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985.

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2006 Horn of Africa food crisis

In 2006, an acute shortage of food affected the countries in the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia), as well as northeastern Kenya.

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2010 Sahel famine

A large-scale, drought-induced famine occurred in Africa's Sahel region and many parts of the neighboring Sénégal River Area from February to August 2010.

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2010–12 La Niña event

The 2010–12 La Niña event was one of the strongest on record.

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2011

2011 was designated as.

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2011 Mogadishu bombing

The 2011 Mogadishu bombing occurred on 4 October 2011, when a suicide bomber drove a truck into the gate of the Transitional Federal Government's ministerial complex in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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2011–12 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2011-2012.

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2012 Olympic hunger summit

The 2012 Olympic hunger summit was an international gathering on 12 August, the closing day of the 2012 Summer Olympics, held at 10 Downing Street London.

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2017 Somalian drought

As of February 2017 a drought ravages Somalia that has left more than 6 million people, or half the country's population, facing food shortages with several water supplies becoming undrinkable due to the possibility of infection.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_East_Africa_drought

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