Browse Disasters
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Agadir Earthquake
1960
Agadir was not supposed to vanish. In one minute of shaking, a city built on a fault line and under weak roofs discovered how little distance there was between ordinary life and ruin.
Cyclone Idai
2019
In one night, a cyclone turned rivers into a single inland sea, then exposed how fragile Southern Africa’s defenses were against the water still to come.
Ebola Outbreak
2013-2016
A virus that could be contained in a ward became a regional collapse, exposing how quickly modern medicine can fail when trust, logistics, and fear unravel at once.
Ethiopia Famine
1983-1985
In the highlands of Ethiopia, drought did not arrive alone; it came with war, policy, and silence, until a famine measured in a million lives forced the world to look—and then to act.
Horn of Africa Drought
2011
In the Horn of Africa, rain failed in one season after another, and by the time the world finally recognized the scale of the hunger, the drought had already turned into a famine that would claim hundreds of thousands of lives.
Sahel Drought
1968-1985
For years the Sahel’s skies failed by degrees, then by seasons, then by whole harvests—until hunger became a landscape and a million lives were measured against the dust.