![]() ![]() Oxfam’s west Africa regional director Aboubacry Tall said the partial failure of the 2014 rainy season had left between 300,000 and 400,000 people in the Sahel without access to a secure food supply. Scaife said the current parched conditions combined with further warming and drying from El Niño would be a “double whammy”. During this event, drying from El Niño tipped the region into full blown drought. ![]() In west Africa, Scaife said conditions were aligning in a similar way to the massive 1972 drought that devastated the Sahel with famine. That is exacerbated this year by some conditions cooling of the North Atlantic,” he said. “ place that’s really important to stress is west Africa, where there is increased risk of drought during El Niño. The two to seven year cycle plays havoc with weather across the world. ![]() El Niño is caused by a reversal of trade winds in the Pacific that allow warm water to spread east, across the ocean. ![]()
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