This time the high temperatures and drought hit when the crops were in their most fragile stage of development.

Families from across southern Somalia have been making their way to the capital since the worst droughts in 60 years hit the area last month.

Similar events occurred over the border in the drought hit Niger.

Floods and droughts hit families like his the hardest of all.

A severe drought once hit this place and it did not rain for years.

Eastonville continued as a stable town until the 1930s when drought and depression hit the west.

Snow and low temperatures stayed persistent until the month of March when drought hit the country.

In the mid-1920s, a terrible drought hit Mansfield and the surrounding area.

A drought hit the area over 1911 causing further hindrance to mining.

Before the work could be completed, a drought hit the entire Northeast.