My colleague Marc Cohen, a senior researcher at Oxfam America, reflects on the 25th anniversary since the devastating famine of 1984 in Ethiopia. He was in the country a few months ago: Twenty-five years ago, Michael Buerk’s dramatic BBC footage from Korem, in northern Ethiopia, brought a devastating famine to the world’s attention. Tens of thousands of people had sought refuge from war and drought in the town. Every 20 minutes, a camp resident died from hunger and related diseases. Buerk called Korem “the closest thing to hell on earth.”
Read the story at The Huffington Post.
Video: The 1984 Ethiopian famine (BBC)
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Today 25 years later 6 million need emergency food aid. shame
Are we really worse than Somalia or some other nations with colonial history? Why is the west obsessed in showing us as weak. I have the answer. Simply because we stood up against colonization. Listen west keep on dreaming u will never ever touch my land.
Reality check: Nature and human stupidity contributed to the great famine of 1984, not western colonization. In 1984, Ethiopia was a under a homegrown power-drunk soldier called Mengistu Haile Mariam, not foreign occupation. He should be brought to justice for this. Today, even worse – over 13 million starving. Please, fukera about our past glory does not bring bread to these people. Reality check please.
ermi ….qizimzim wedih dulla wedia …sile mindinew yemitaweraw?