A cholera outbreak that began in August was so critical that by December, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was describing the crisis as an "international emergency".31.

8月，该国爆发霍乱，其形势是如此严重以至于到12月，英国首相布朗将其形容为“国际性的危机”。

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So serious is the situation that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that the food crisis threatened "to 9)roll back progress made in recent years to lift millions of people out of poverty."

情况是如此严重，英国首相戈登•布朗宣称粮食危机使人类“最近几年为数百万人口摆脱贫困所做的所有努力面临前功尽弃的危险”。

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We first saw this coalition in July when the government pushed through the legislation to enact an increase in IMF funds proposed by Gordon Brown during the last crisis.

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