Overall Orange alert Drought for Zambezi Basin-2024
in Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 7 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1016878
Name: Zambezi Basin-2024
Glide number: DR-2024-000018-ZMB
Countries: Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Start Date: End of Dec 2023
Duration: 292 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 130284 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

UN: World’s water cycle becoming ever more erratic 10/7/2024 10:41:00 PM.

GENEVA: Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” of what is to come as climate change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned Monday. Last year the world’s rivers were their
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World water resources decreasing as global rivers dry up 10/7/2024 8:56:00 PM.

GENEVA - Billions of people are facing a future of water scarcity as global rivers dry up, glaciers melt, and intense heat and other extreme weather events caused by climate change create critical changes in water availability around the wo
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Report: Heavy rainfall in 2023 caused floods, killed over 12k people i.. 10/7/2024 8:31:00 PM.

A new report has shown that high rainfall levels contributed to major flooding events in 2023 which killed over 12,000 in Libya, Kenya and other countries in Africa. According to the report published by the World Meteorological Organization
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World water resources decreasing as global rivers dry up 10/7/2024 7:13:00 PM.

GENEVA - Billions of people are facing a future of water scarcity as global rivers dry up, glaciers melt, and intense heat and other extreme weather events caused by climate change create critical changes in water availability around the wo
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Analytical report

07/Oct/2024 13:59 UTC

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02/Aug/2024 07:09 UTC

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Analytical report

19/Apr/2024 09:39 UTC

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