Drought

7月18日，聯(lián)合國(guó)糧食及農(nóng)業(yè)組織呼吁國(guó)際社會(huì)向尼日爾250萬(wàn)饑餓人口提供緊急援助。糧農(nóng)組織今年5月曾呼吁國(guó)際社會(huì)向尼日爾提供400萬(wàn)美元緊急援助，但迄今只收到65萬(wàn)美元。外電報(bào)道如下：The costs of saving millions of people starving in Niger are rocketing because rich nations ignored calls for early intervention to avert the ravages of last year's drought, relief workers said on Wednesday.

Increasingly desperate appeals from aid agencies and the government have encouraged donors to come forward with funds in the past few weeks, but only after large numbers of children began dying of diseases brought on by hunger.

"The funding needs are sky-rocketing because it's a matter of saving lives," said Gian Carlo Cirri, the U.N. World Food Program's (WFP) representative in Niger's capital Niamey.

Drought表示“旱災(zāi)；干旱季節(jié)，長(zhǎng)期缺乏或不足”，相關(guān)的詞組有：drought-enduring（耐旱的）；drought-resistant（抗旱的）；combat drought（抗旱）；partial drought（小旱）等。

據(jù)悉，尼日爾近年遭受?chē)?yán)重干旱和蝗蟲(chóng)災(zāi)害侵襲，農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)遭到毀滅性打擊，全國(guó)大部分地區(qū)陷入糧荒，共有250萬(wàn)人口處在經(jīng)常性饑餓中，其中80萬(wàn)兒童嚴(yán)重營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良。

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