drought-affected area

Angolan officials have said that two million people live in the drought-affected area.

But the fact is that there are many more people in these drought-affected areas, living off the same land, with worsening rains.

He also added the service of cloud seeding, forcing precipitation in drought-affected areas.

Drought-affected areas will become larger.

Aerial view of a drought-affected area within the Amazon basin in Manaus, Brazil.

Several sections of inland Tasmania, together with Flinders Island, were declared drought-affected areas by the state government in 2007.

About 300,000 Ethiopians are estimated to have returned from Somalia and face "a major tragedy" because they remain in remote and drought-affected areas, the report said.

"There are no food stocks left, and on both sides of the conflict, in drought-affected areas, we do not think people will make it until the fall," Mr. Natsios said.

Djibouti women gather to discuss their needs with the Djibouti Red Crescent assessment team in a drought-affected area near Dikhil, southern Djibouti.

The road from the port, along which United Nations and Ethiopian trucks ferry food to drought-affected areas, was cut by the fighting, the Eritreans and the Ethiopian Government said.

At the end of June, I travelled to one of the worst drought-affected areas in Ethiopia - the Borena region on the southern border with Kenya - and came across a number of settlements.

For many residents this was the first they had heard of the plans and they voiced worries about the millions of gallons of water needed for the operation in a drought-affected area, and noise and water pollution.

The population of metropolitan Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and ranges from six to seven million, including around two million displaced persons from the southern war zone as well as western and eastern drought-affected areas.

Although October was very wet in South Australia, western Victoria, and southern Queensland, drought-affected areas of New South Wales did not get significant rain until December, when hot, humid and unsettled weather brought some relief from the driest February to November period over the southeast corner since 1915.