{"id":5487,"date":"2023-05-29T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/climate-change-made-east-africas-drought-100-times-as-likely-study-says"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:31:52","slug":"climate-change-made-east-africas-drought-100-times-as-likely-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/climate-change-made-east-africas-drought-100-times-as-likely-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change made East Africa\u2019s drought 100 times as likely, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EAdrought_1685360069.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world\u2019s poorest regions, to famine\u2019s brink.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Millions of people have faced food and water shortages. Hundreds of thousands have fled their homes, seeking relief. A below-normal forecast for the current rainy season means the suffering could continue.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cThis vital study shows that climate change is not just something our children need to worry about \u2014 it\u2019s already here,\u201d said Mohamed Adow, the director of Power Shift Africa, a think tank in Nairobi, Kenya. \u201cPeople on the front lines of the climate crisis need, and deserve, financial help to recover and rebuild their lives.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world\u2019s poorest regions, to famine\u2019s brink. Millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-adaptation"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}