Between 1970 and 2019, droughts cost Zimbabwe **** percent of the country's GDP. Five of the ** most expensive weather, climate, and water related disasters in Africa over the last decades were droughts. In 1990, a drought in South Africa resulted to be one of the two most expensive natural disasters of the last decades. Droughts are also the natural disaster that caused the highest number of deaths in Africa, much more than floods and landslides.
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