Sentence examples for famine exists from inspiring English sources

This morning the UN officially declared that famine exists in Somalia and that the lives of nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in crisis.

The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle.

Objective To apply the famine scale by Howe and Devereux to the situation in Niger, west Africa, in 2005 to retrospectively determine whether famine existed.

13 According to Howe and Devereux, however, the prevalence of global acute malnutrition alone is not sufficient to predict or to define famine. 2 We applied the famine scale to the situation in Niger in 2005, by assessing mortality and household coping strategies with rates of malnutrition, to retrospectively determine whether famine existed.

"That famine still exists is a terrible thing, something that keeps the world from being a more wonderful place than it is.

Famine conditions exist in two large regions of Somalia, as well as three smaller areas, including parts of Mogadishu where there are large concentrations of displaced people.

Before the famine they exist almost solely on potatoes, penniless subtenants who pay their rent in labor to an English landlord residing in Italy.

"There is a great concern that famine may exist in the coming months but it may not be possible to validate it at that time due to lack of evidence as the result of limited access to the affected areas and populations," said the IPC report.

13 Yet these results alone did not answer whether a famine had existed.

But the emphasis will be on delivering aid directly to Afghanistan, where famine conditions have existed since earlier this year.

Mark Bowden, humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, said on Wednesday that famine conditions now existed in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of the country.