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Almost forgotten amid the word games was the plight of the evicted and of the 8 million others in drought- and famine-plagued Ethiopia whose lives are hanging by a thread. The Ibnet episode highlighted the ways in which political issues have complicated and sometimes obscured a humanitarian problem. It also deepened the unease of Western governments and relief agencies faced with a leadership in Addis Ababa that accepts their aid while reviling their principles. "There is a growing awareness in the relief community of just how ruthless the Mengistu government is," said Chris Cartter of Boston-based Grassroots International...
...final sad irony of Ethiopia's predicament that, after a decade of drought, relief workers are, for the moment, praying for little rain. Early last week, torrential downpours damaged 5% of the supplies stranded at Assab. Worse still, heavy rains expected in many areas within the next two months will render roads muddy and impassable for relief trucks. Above all, they will increase the likelihood that both contagious diseases and death by exposure could sweep through the crowded camps...
...that "all illegal aliens are to leave before the tenth of May." About half the immigrants targeted for expulsion originally came from Ghana, the rest mainly from Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Togo, Gambia and Benin. Many had entered Nigeria illegally in search of jobs; others had fled from drought and starvation...
...orders came without warning. Late last month Ethiopian officials at Ibnet, one of the largest of the drought-parched country's 200 famine-relief centers, suddenly announced that most of the camp's 58,000 residents had to return, within twelve hours, to their homes. For thousands of the refugees, including old people and some weakened by starvation, the order meant a walk of up to two weeks through some of Africa's most rugged terrain. Hundreds, therefore, resisted the move, protesting that they would rather die in the camp than face the ordeals of the open road. At that...
...economy needs particularly urgent attention. Parts of the country are suffering through the driest year of the century, a drought that could easily become as wasting as that in Ethiopia. As a result, the country is producing less and less food for more and more mouths as flocks of starving refugees crowd over the borders from parched neighbors, especially Ethiopia and Chad. Sudan is already sheltering 1.2 million refugees, and up to 4,000 newcomers arrive every...