Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, in the capital of famine-stricken Ethiopia, Adis Abeba, children under one are being immunized at a higher rate than are infants in New York City or Washington D.C., he said...
Reading about the events before the Second World War, a few events have always puzzled me. Why, for instance, did Europe's most powerful nations allow Japanese aggression in Manchuria and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia to stand unopposed? Up until that point, the new League of Nations had succeeded in ensuring that several conflicts did not explode...
...Apparently not. Their rationale for inaction against Japan was that Manchuria was a disputed area anyway and that intervention was not practical. Britain and France were consumed by internal worries and not in the mood for a far-flung foreign adventure. When 1935 rolled around and Italy invaded Ethiopia, the League did have the backbone to impose sanctions. But they lacked the will to make sure they struck, and Italy swallowed up its catch...
...seems so easy to stay on the sidelines, content with our statements of horror and pleas for restraint. Intervention appears messy and frightening, just as it did in China and Ethiopia...
...forces under orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14 feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely. At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons...