He received a national news Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1988 Sudan famine.
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Michael cared deeply and used that talent to help bring attention to famine and poverty in Africa.
In the several years before famine was acknowledged, perhaps 2m died from that and related causes.
Joseph Stalin manufactured a famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s that killed 10 million people.
Such restrictions have often played an ignoble, supporting role in the history of famine.
Almond and Edlund quickly realized that they were looking at a statistical impossibility a famine of females.
Nearly five million people could be on the cusp of famine, the U.N. says.
Some 29, 000 Somali children have died from the famine in the past three months alone.
The government had offered nothing that would help avert the threatened famine, she said.
The big story out of Africa this week is not about war, politics or famine.
The country is in the fifth year of a famine created by its misbegotten policies.
In 1321, some 20% of English people are reckoned to have died of famine.
For all the challenges of isolation, drought and famine, the country is peaceful and socially cohesive.
He triggered a famine in which an estimated 5 million Russians starved to death.
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The WFP is the only organisation with the logistical muscle to end the famine quickly.
Other horrors caused by global warming would decrease, such as tropical diseases, violent weather and famine.
Estimates for the famine's death toll at the time varied from 220, 000 to 3.5 million.
Worse, when the feast is over the car industry is likely to lurch towards famine.
For all the challenges of isolation, drought and famine, Mali is peaceful and socially cohesive.
Rough estimates of famine victims in the next few years range upwards from 10m.
Famine, international debt, underdevelopment, war and pandemics all make the right to healthcare difficult to provide.
Now, with another nuclear stand-off and fresh uncertainties about succession, famine again stalks the country.
Though North Koreans are already reported to be dying of hunger, a vast famine remains improbable.
Along with our international partners, we've saved countless lives from the famine in the Horn of Africa.
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Effective warning systems had been put in place following the 1984-85 famine in Ethiopia, said Mr Gormley.
Famine and food riots are already a reality in countries throughout Africa and in India as well.
The UN first declared a famine in July 2011 in Somalia's Southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions.
Farmers already struggling to make a living therefore cannot feed themselves, continuing the cycle of famine.
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Stalin's crash program to collectivize agricultural production caused the great famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s.
The collapse of the government, and resulting clan-based violence, led to a famine that drew international attention.
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