Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drought area stretches across the entire waist of Africa, from Mauritania in the west to Ethiopia in the east In Ethiopia, more than 50,000 have died of starvation. Many mothers have had to sacrifice their weakest children by drawing emergency food rations for them and then using the food to feed the others. So great is the catastrophe, says one local priest, that the traditional public weeping and wailing for the dead has been abandoned; the people have lost the will...
MUCH OF AFRICA is in the grips of a widespread famine, and Ethiopia is the nation hardest hit by lack of food because it has not been getting aid from the United Nations and other world organizations. 180,000 Ethiopians starved to death last week...
...might prompt them to think about making bigger sacrifices for people dying of humger. It now is too late to sign up for the fast; everyone, whether or not they have signed up, should realize that skipping one meal is only the beginning of what must be done for Ethiopia...
...West African famine is striking worst in Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian government has deliberately refused to recognize the severity of the crisis until the past few weeks, Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said yesterday...
...Ethiopia's government has acted as if there was no crisis at all by trying to hide the problem," Mayer said. "The governor of the worst-hit province failed to even report the food shortage...