As one site was abandoned, because of drought, violence, environmental degradation — the reasons are obscure — the leaders led an exodus to a new location: sometimes north, sometimes south, but hewing as closely as they could to the 108th meridian.
Drought, violence and political instability have invited in the grim reaper on a scale we have not seen in 20 years... more than 30,000 children have died in just three months.
Kelton's characters always face dire circumstances — drought, renegade violence, evil stepmothers — but this high-spiritedness is never missing.
Migrants are streaming out of Central America for a complex set of reasons — including drought, poverty, violence and political instability — problems that will persist regardless of U.S. border policy.
Considering the severity of our drought, worldwide violence and inequalities and the inadequacy of actions to overcome these threats, it is imperative that many more professors and scholars like you speak out before too many tipping points overwhelm the human race.
We were headed to Mauritania to deliver relief supplies for people affected by drought and violence in the Sahel region.
In recent years, tens of millions of Africans have fled areas afflicted with famine, drought, persecution, and violence.
For more than 20 years, the UN, the United States, Ethiopia and others have been deeply involved in trying to solve what they see as the Somali problem, which has included drought, famine, piracy, violence, corruption and Islamist extremism.
Aid officials estimate that 4.5 million Somalians could starve because of drought and the violence that prevented food imports.
I'm sorry that Michael Jackson, a great artist, has to carry the burden as being the first but there are so many people, young and old, men and women, who have followed and yet, like the roids and the sub-prime loans and the drought and the violence, people talk about it in private and yet nothing happens.
In 2012, Somalia was the second largest country of origin for refugees, with more than 1.1 million people fleeing due to conflict, violence, drought, and famine [ 2].
