The ground around the house is completely dry and cracked like the land in the Sahel Desert during the drought.

房子周围的土地完全干旱得裂开来，就像干旱时期的萨赫勒沙漠一样。

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No place is immune, neither the arid Sahel of Africa nor the grain-exporting regions of Australia nor the drought-prone Southwest of the U.S..

任何地区——无论是非洲干旱的撒赫勒(Sahel)地区，还是澳大利亚的粮食出口区，还是美国日趋干旱的西南地区——都不能回避这一问题。

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We should also not forget in many of the world's countries drought, chronic water shortage, is a fact of life, especially in the African Sahel region bordering the Sahara desert.

我们还不应该忘记，在世界上许多国家，尤其是比邻撒哈拉沙漠的非洲萨赫尔地区，旷日持久的干旱缺水是必须面对的现实。

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Governments with the financial resources have been able to pursue alternative measures within the global marketplace to achieve this goal, while others are re-examining their development and trade policies, and even turning to emergency relief to overcome food crises, such as those experienced in the Horn of Africa and Sahel due to drought.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

It is believed to have influenced events as varied as floods along the Mississippi River in 1993 and, later that year, the drought that devastated the African Sahel.

NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

Superstorm Sandy in the United States, drought in Africa's Sahel, a bitter cold snap in Europe and floods in China were just some of the severe weather events of 2012.

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