What's the difference between affamish and famine?
Affamish
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.
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Famine
Definition:
(n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
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(1) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(2) Those areas remain under the control of al-Shabaab, the Islamist insurgents, who have restricted access to those affected by famine because they view western aid agencies with suspicion.
(3) Stephen O’Brien, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told the security council in New York on Friday that more than 20 million people in four countries – Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria – were facing starvation and famine, numbers that would make this the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war.
(4) If you have a second generalised failure of crops across the region you will certainly have the early set in of a food crisis or possibly a famine in the Sahel,” he said.
(5) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(6) In 1830, the Celtic seaboard nations made up nearly 40% of the United Kingdom; that dropped throughout the 19th century due to the Irish famine and emigration.
(7) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(8) Effects on health include an increase in mortality rates, famine and infectious disease epidemics.
(9) The UN warns that 800,000 children could die from starvation, and last week declared a famine in some parts of the country.
(10) The alternative is a famine akin to that seen in Ethiopia 30 years ago.
(11) Natural "bridges" could also be created to help the pandas escape from a bamboo famine.
(12) "What ends up happening is we only intervene when the malnutrition gets to a famine level or a humanitarian emergency level, and then what's the cost of that?"
(13) Since the mid-1970s, the mental health treatment system in the U.S. has faced budgetary famine.
(14) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(15) When drought struck India in 1877 and 1878, the British imperial government insisted on exporting record amounts of grain, precipitating a famine that killed millions .
(16) Famine has already been declared in parts of South Sudan .
(17) There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.
(18) After all, it was the state system that allowed an estimated one million people to starve during the ‘arduous march’ famine of the late 1990s .
(19) According to Unicef, some 250 children die from malnutrition daily in Yemen and scenes in Mazrak at times resemble a famine.
(20) She worked in the highly infectious “red zone” near Freetown and wrote in a diary for the Scotsman how she had been inspired to become a health worker after seeing images of the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.