Sentence examples for blocked famine from inspiring English sources
The Shabab have refused to allow many Western aid organizations into their territory and have even blocked famine victims from fleeing to seek help.
He first explained that from 1986 the economic activities were blocked and famine, poverty for rural people and no access to land impeded people from improving their lives.
The rebel army controlling most of the northern Ethiopian province of Eritrea is blocking desperately needed famine relief supplies, members of the United States Congress and officials of the United Nations say.
A vehemently anti-Western Islamist militia that controls large parts of southern Somalia, the Shabab banned most Western aid agencies from entering their territory and blocked starving villagers from fleeing famine zones.
One reason the situation has gotten this grim is that most of the big Western aid agencies and charities, the ones with the technical expertise and so-called surge capacity to rapidly distribute aid, have been blocked from working in the famine zones.
Aid agencies have warned that the country faces severe food shortages and potential famine if relief supplies remain blocked and if displaced farmers are prevented from returning home.
The volcanic cloud, he suggests, blocked sunlight everywhere, destroyed crops and led to famines that prompted mass migrations and invasions.
Much of the southern third of the country is still controlled by the Shabab, who have blocked desperately needed food aid from reaching many famine-stricken areas.
Human folly causes famine, which occurs when those ways are blocked.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Shabab militant group, which has already blocked many aid agencies from reaching starving people in Somalia's famine zones, ordered 16 more aid agencies to shut down on Monday.
The Shabab's notoriously brutal brand of Islamism had tormented Mogadishu residents for years, but more recently the rebels have also blocked many international relief groups from bringing food to victims of the famine that swept southern Somalia this summer.
