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.