How old are you?
The reason I ask is if you are at least 35 years old you will remember the terrible famine that hit Ethiopia in the 1980’s…..but in case you were in diapers….
A widespread famine affected the inhabitants of today’s Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, in northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths……. but more than half this mortality can be attributed to human rights abuses that caused the famine to come earlier, strike harder, and extend further than would otherwise have been the case. Other areas of Ethiopia experienced famine for similar reasons, resulting in tens of thousands of additional deaths. The tragedy as a whole took place within the context of more than two decades of insurgency and civil war.
(wikipedia)
If you can remember back then you will remember all the calls for help for the starving inhabitants of the region……or maybe you will recall the images from those days…..
That famine caused the deaths of about 4 million people because of war, drought and crop failures….
But thankfully those days are behind these people……at least you would think so, right?
It looks like Ethiopia is in for yet another round of problems…..thanx to war and drought…….
Conflicts, floods and failed rains caused by El Nino have sparked a sharp rise in the number of people going hungry in parts of east Africa, especially in drought-hit Ethiopia where about 8.2 million people are in need of emergency food aid, the UN has warned.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday that due to El Nino, a global weather pattern that is expected to last until early 2016, “food insecurity is forecast to worsen over the coming months, especially in Ethiopia”.
In many parts of Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of farmers have fallen victim to the hot winds originating in the Pacific, causing the worst drought to hit the country and the region in decades.
(AlJazeera)
Once again the people of Ethiopia will face starvation and hardships…….not to mention that the rains in the highlands is one of the sources of the Nile…..ask what will that do to the crops downstream if there is little water to feed the Nile……..the famine could spread.
I remember when the U.S. or somenbody sent a whole bunch of money, seeds, agriculture experts and farm equipment to some African nation suffering a terrible drought-caused food shortage and the locals refused to do the work of farming and so the hunger persisted and became even more devastating and it required tons of donations to get a handle on the situation.
In Ethiopia it was the war lords tokk the stuff and refused to let it out until they were paid….where was this? You mean that people were hungry and refused to grow stuff? Sounds like a WND story to me….
Sounds like they were too lazy to work to me.
Did you bother to see if that was accurate or was someone’s word good enough? Sorry but I have too many lies in the name of news to trust much…..
That is correct! I find the safest course in life is to Believe Nothing and Trust No One. —- But …. that was the common consensus back in the day when it was all going on … we were sending people over there to do agri training and we were shipping tractors and implements and the whole effort just stood around collecting dust because you couldn’t get the peasants to get off their lazy rear ands and actually work in the fields.
Still not convinced….this sounds like one story that is used to make a general statement about all….that has a name….
And then as we all might have suspected a big portion of the aid money we sent to them went for guns and ammunition and war materials rather than for food for the starving.
Could have been oversight by government…..but that would not make it in the news….