Sentence examples for in dire need of food from inspiring English sources

Eliasson said virtually the entire population of 4.6 million people was "enduring suffering beyond imagination" and a third of its people were in dire need of food, protection, health care, water, sanitation and shelter.

He said the administration felt a sense of urgency because the insurgents had turned over only outdated weapons and because Falluja faced an imminent human crisis, with residents in dire need of food and medicine.

More than 5,800 people have been killed and more than 80% of Yemen's population is in dire need of food, water and other aid, according to the UnitedNations.

About 12 million people are in dire need of food in East Africa because of the drought and limited access to parts of Somalia controlled by the extremist group al-Shabab.

Adrian Edwards, a UNHCR spokesman said that after a mass influx in the past 72 hours, there are now 35,000 Yazidis and other minorities who escaped Sinjar taking refuge in Dohuk, where they were in dire need of food, water and shelter.

Almost three million Yemenis are internally displaced; the numbers of acutely malnourished children and people in dire need of food assistance are the highest in the world; health services have been devastated; and a cholera epidemic has killed nearly 2,000 people and infected more than half a million in just three months.

The worst-hit areas are Anju city and Songchon County in South Phyongan Province, as well as Chonnae County in Kangwon Province, where residents are in dire need of emergency food aid, it said.

Their efforts helped a population of homeless teens in dire need of shelter, food and support during the storm.

For this reason, I believe that even if global food markets were more tightly regulated, it would not make a significant difference to those who are in dire need of basic food and drinkable water.

"Most of them were mothers and children in dire need of shelter, food and water," says UNICEF Programme Officer Narinder Sharma.

Millions more are in dire need of emergency medicine, food, clean water and shelter following the disaster on Saturday.