U.S. Media Attention Turns To East Africa Famine
After the New York Times published a cover story earlier this week, the U.S. media is about to boost its coverage of the East Africa famine.
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Ethiopia Plans Resettlement of People Affected by Looming Hunger Crisis
Ethiopia sees voluntary resettlement of seminomadic peoples into villages as a longterm solution for famine.
Historic Famine in East Africa Conjures Depressing Sense of Deja Vu
Thousands of families are walking for days in search of food in East Africa’s triangle of hunger.
US Food Aid Contributing to Africa’s Hunger?
Above: A quarter century after the 1984 famine, which left millions of Ethiopians destitute, familiar faces still linger as the…
25th anniversary of Ethiopia famine – Has anything changed since?
The Huffington Post: My colleague Marc Cohen, a senior researcher at Oxfam America, reflects on the 25th anniversary since the…
How British TV Reports Famine
25 years after Michael Buerk’s broadcasts from Ethiopia, the documentaries have stopped, but the starvation hasn’t.