Overall Orange alert Drought for Eastern Africa-2025
in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 1 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1017863
Name: Eastern Africa-2025
Glide number: DR-2025-000148-ETH
Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania
Start Date: End of Apr 2025
Duration: 20 days (at 20 May 2025)
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 861642 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),