Eastern Cape drought

Name: Eastern Cape drought
Start: 2015

2015 CE.

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The Eastern Cape region of South Africa experienced a severe multi-year drought from 2015 through early 2020. The drought was one of the worst in the region's history and led the South African government to declare the region a "disaster area" in October 2019. The drought was a recurrence of the 1992 Eastern Cape Drought, which had resulted from similar weather patterns.

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