Complex sentence: This was followed in the 1890s by several other catastrophic events, several disastrous droughts combined with the rinderpest epidemic led to starvation and many deaths in 1895-6.
Split into simpler sentences: This was followed in the 1890s by several other catastrophic events. Consecutive years of disastrous droughts combined with the rinderpest epidemic led to starvation and many deaths in 1895-6.