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Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region. [7] Said to be "the worst in 60 years", [8] the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people. [6] Many refugees from southern Somalia fled to neighboring ...
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East African Plateau. / 0.027861°S 36.560861°E / -0.027861; 36.560861. The East African Plateau is a large plateau in the eastern part of central Africa in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Its elevation is mostly between 1000 and 1500 meters. It is subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of mountain ...
Amman. Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia. Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology ] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The East African oryx (Oryx beisa), also known as the beisa, is a species of medium-sized antelope from East Africa.It has two subspecies: the common beisa oryx (Oryx beisa beisa) found in steppe and semidesert throughout the Horn of Africa and north of the Tana River, and the fringe-eared oryx (Oryx beisa callotis) south of the Tana River in southern Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
East African Airways Corporation, more commonly known as East African Airways, was an airline jointly run by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It was set up on 1 January 1946, starting operations the same year. The airline was headquartered in the Sadler House in Nairobi, Kenya. [1] The corporation was dissolved in 1977 amid deteriorated relations ...
Triathlon is a popular sport and in particular hosted the a world-famous Ironman 70.3 South African event which took place annually in January from 2012 to 2021. Ironman 70.3 events follow a race format which consists of a 1.9 km swim, 90 km of cycling and a 21.1 km road run. The event started and finished at the Orient Beach in East London.
3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War. 3 October 1935 – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia; Italian East Africa. 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 World War II. 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre. 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 East African Campaign