Climate: dry with short rainy season (July-Sept)
Annual precipitation (average): 250-500mm
Daily Temperature (average): 28-30°C
Population:Doubling very 20-30 years
Agriculture: subsistence agriculture and nomadic pastoralists
Drought: continuing since 1968
1973-74: drought killed 100,000 in Sahel
1983: 5 million in Ethiopia suffered from drought
1984-91: Sudan experience three major droughts and famines 1991: Sahel rains failed again, leaving 4,28 million facing starvation 1998: problem returns to Sudan
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