1. A grinding drought has resulted in widespread crop failures and brought famine and disease to some remote parts. 2. Aid also has been promised to help Indonesians affected by a grinding drought. 3. For much of this year, rice harvests were devastated by a grinding drought blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon. 4. Most of the Afghan refugees fled a grinding drought and civil war that have devastated their Central Asian country. 5. Most of the refugees fled a grinding drought and civil war that have devastated their Central Asian country. |