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C. Years-long flooding has forced people in South Sudan to forage for the bitter water lily bulbs that offer little nutrition. Uganda is bordered by South Sudan to the north, Kenya to the east, Tanzania to the south, Rwanda to the southwest, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
B. There are reports of hundreds of children dying of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which was reduced to extreme poverty in a recent civil war. Ethiopia’s government denied that a famine is imminent, and said it’s trying to provide aid.
D. Half of Monaco’s population is over 56 years old. The tiny European nation also is the world’s second richest, with a gross domestic product per person of $115,700. In Uganda it is $2,200, placing it among the world’s poorest nations.
A. About 1 million people fled Ireland, mainly to North America, as a result of the Great Famine that lasted from 1845 to 1852. It is estimated that another million people died because of the blight that destroyed Ireland’s potato crop. Coffin ships are a description of the overcrowded and disease-ridden vessels that carried Irish emigrants across the Atlantic Ocean. Many died on the voyages.