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The crops and grasslands that sustain people in the Sahel and East Africa languished in the wake of poor rainfall during the 2009 rainy season.
Images created by Jesse Allen, using GIMMS NOAA-17 AVHRR and Africa Rainfall Estimate data provided by Ed Pak, Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek with information from Assaf Anyamba.
Published July 15, 2009 Data acquired June 1 - 30, 2009