Question

ʜᴇᴀᴠʏ ʀᴀɪɴs ʀᴇsᴜʟᴛ ɪɴ ғᴀᴍɪɴᴇ
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Answer 1

Heavy rainfall as a famine catalyst in the Sahel has been largely undetected or under-appreciated. Iliffe's (1987) sources cited flooding as the cause of crop failures in 1616 in the Niger River inland delta region, and attributed food shortages in Senegal and northeastern Nigeria to heavy rains in 1872.