smekosh/africa-drought

# africa-drought # Millions of people across Africa lack access to enough food. A drought in Kenya has prompted a state of emergency. Northeast Nigeria faces acute malnutrition. Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, and Somalia is on the brink of famine. Tens of millions of people across the continent ― many of whom are children ― grapple with food insecurity day-to-day. Here, VOA provides ongoing coverage of this critical story. ### Getting started ### You can update the slides for local dev with: `./fetch_data.sh` ### What is this repository for? ### * ### To do list ### * ### Done (from the to-do list ### * ### Resources ### * Early warning data portal(USGS, USAID and FEWSnet) * fews.net * Converting .shp files to geojson * Simplifying geojson and/or exporting to topojson * Using panes to adjust leaflet stacking for tile background, vector map and label layers * Armed conflict maps and data ACLED * ACLED API Documentation