Sentence examples for famine today from inspiring English sources
I won't die of famine today.
For one who is not numb to the world, the daily information flowing from the television, newspaper and internet that 100 fathers, mothers and children in Cameroon died of famine today, or 1,000 died today in India due to massive flooding, coupled with landslides would surely be too much to handle.
Thousands were sent through secret smuggling pipelines that date back to the deadly famine two decades ago.
But the prediction system worked – it warned of the imminent famine a year ago.
The security gains made since al-Shabaab left Mogadishu at the height of a terrible famine two years ago are constantly threatened.
Aid advocates celebrated when the United Nations began to call areas of Somalia's humanitarian situation a famine this week.
One upshot is a food crisis that the UN warns might see hundreds of thousands die from famine next year.
As a 27-year-old Communist he spent the famine winter of 1932-33 in Kharkov, amid millions of starving Ukrainians.
On Monday, leading aid agencies warned that parts of South Sudan could fall into famine early next year if fighting is renewed.
A looming drought in the south-west threatens over 3m people with famine this year, on top of the 1.7m who already survive on international relief.
A reference directs the reader to a newspaper article, which an internet search reveals to be a review of Frank Dikötter's book, Mao's Great Famine (2011).
