Sentence examples for reports of famine from inspiring English sources

Tourists can walk to the end of it, look at the bombed-out wreckage, and pay one yuan to stare through a telescope at the North Koreans.... Writer mentions reports of famine in the country..

Tourists can walk to the end of it, look at the bombed-out wreckage, and pay one yuan to stare through a telescope at the North Koreans.... Writer mentions reports of famine in the country.

This is the narrative of Live Aid and Bono, the story told to us immediately after news reports of famine and unrest in places that, we are made to believe, just can't get by without western charity.

To mention just one example of this hostility, Obama administration officials and many members of Congress now feel comfortable denying North Korea humanitarian food aid -- despite reports of famine sweeping parts of the country -- although that policy runs contrary to the long tradition of U.S. opposition to politicizing humanitarian assistance.

My North Korean experience was full of these bizarre episodes, the most disturbing being the copious amounts of food provided to us at a time of reports of widespread famine in the countryside.

Significant events, reported in the international media, were not covered by AP's Pyongyang bureau, such as the six-week public disappearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in September and October 2014, the November 2014 Sony Entertainment hack that had allegedly been orchestrated by a North Korean cyberwarfare agency, or a reports of a famine in South Hwanghae province in 2012.

Media reports of the famine conditions in Niger left little doubt of a humanitarian crisis but the scale and severity of the crisis and whether it reached famine proportions was disputed.

From the comfort of Moscow, he wrote that "any report of a famine is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda".

Buerk, whose harrowing reports of the Ethiopian famine in 1984 prompted Bob Geldof to launch Band Aid and Live Aid, also expressed dismay and disdain at the state of Britain in general.

German army intelligence gloatingly reported on the effects of famine diseases such as dysentery and typhus.

According to Campbell, the haunting images of starving people – especially children – that have long been the mainstay of famine reporting, may do more harm than good.