belg

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"We had poor belg (February to May) rains and El Nino has also affected the meher season (June to September)," said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF's country representative in Ethiopia.

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  • After this precedent, why might not everything in the Horoe belg, and the Weymar Year- Book be proved as referring to something? —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
  • The weather is usually sunny and dry, with the short or belg rains occurring February-April and the big or meher rains beginning in late June and ending in mid-September.
  • "Based upon the findings of joint belg / gu [short seasonal rains] assessment accompanied by a series of discussions with the concerned regional governments, the number of emergency beneficiaries has been revised from 4.6 million to 6.4 million, out of which 76 percent are from Somali, Oromia and Southern regions," Mitiku Kassa, State Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, told donors and the media on 14 October. —  IRIN
  • "We had poor belg (February to May) rains and El Nino has also affected the meher season (June to September)," said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF's country representative in Ethiopia. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • J.pharm. belg., 1920, ii, 537. —  The Vitamine Manual
 

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