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Southern Africa faced widespread drought from the October 2018 to March 2019 rainy season, with less than 55 percent of normal rainfall totals, alerts FEWS. The 2018-2019 rainfall began a month late, triggering extended dry spells between January and March. The historically low rainfall totals affected areas of Botswana, northern Zimbabwe, eastern Namibia, southern Angola, and the surplus producing areas of northern South Africa and southern Zambia, and registered a D3 (Extreme) or a D4 (Exceptional) drought as per the United States Drought Monitor classification scale.

East Africa facing acute food insecurity as drought continues, alerts FEWS and FAO

This piece originally appeared on the A4NH blog.

This post originally appeared on IFPRI.org.

By Claudia Ringler. This post originally appeared in African Leadership Magazine .