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While aid from around the world continued to pour into drought-ravaged Ethiopia, a government relief official last week paused to discuss the reasons for the tragedy. "What is happening in many parts of the country now could so easily have been prevented," said Dawit Wolde Giorgis, commissioner of relief and rehabilitation. "It needed the horrifying pictures of death and starvation on the television screens in North America and Europe to galvanize the world into taking notice of what was happening...
...hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
...ALTHOUGH drought is obviously an inexorable feature of the African climate, its effects are becoming increasingly devastating because of the deepening poverty, swelling population and land depletion that has swept the continent...
...Drought will always come to Ethiopia. But if the country can reach a level of development where food production exceeds population growth, the threat of extinction will not be to Ethiopia but to famine itself...
...relief has begun to pour in. But throughout the country, at least 6 million people live at the brink of starvation. Relief workers expect that almost a million Ethiopians may die this year alone in what could become "the worst human disaster in recent history." After ten years of drought and civil war, twelve of the country's 14 provinces have been laid waste by a famine of biblical proportions. More than 40% of the country's 42 million people are malnourished, and 2.2 million have left their homes to wander in search of food...