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  2. 2011 East Africa drought - Wikipedia

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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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  4. East African Plateau - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Middle East - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. East African oryx - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. East African Airways - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. East London, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of conflicts in Africa - Wikipedia

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    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