Original sentence: These famines cause widespread malnutrition and impoverishment; The modern African famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s had an immense death toll, although Asian famines of the 20th century have also produced extensive death tolls
Edited sentence: While these famines cause widespread malnutrition and impoverishment, no modern African famine (save Ethiopia in the 1980s) has come close to equalling the immense death tolls of the worst Asian famines of the 20th century