Word: ethiopia
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...arid, sparsely populated plain around the village of Badme may not be much of a prize, but that hasn't stopped Ethiopia and Eritrea from sacrificing more men in battles for its control than the U.S. lost during the Vietnam War. (And, of course, the U.S. wasn't facing the prospect of hundreds of thousands of its citizens' dying of starvation back home.) The two countries exchanged heavy fire Tuesday as Ethiopia pressed its advance into territory seized by Eritrea in 1998, and the U.S. moved to win support for a U.N. Security Council arms embargo - having failed last week...
Should food aid to a needy country be tied to how its government behaves? For these two forlorn children in the drought-ravaged wasteland of Ethiopia's southeast, the answer may well determine if they live or die. The pair number among millions of largely nomadic people in the vast Horn of Africa region, threatened once again by famine. Three straight years of scant rainfall have caused the blistering of large tracts of grazing land, killing off herds of livestock and resulting in the death of hundreds of people, a figure that could rise alarmingly in coming months. Several countries...
...situation is not yet as grim as Ethiopia's great famine of the mid-1980s, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but neither is it as straightforward. In the battle against hunger, geopolitics has intruded into the picture. Currently, Ethiopia is locked in a border war with Eritrea over an inconsequential strip of no-man's-land. The conflict, experts estimate, is costing the Ethiopian authorities about $1 million a day. Politicians and aid officials in donor countries think that money should be used to buy food rather than guns...
...Ethiopians welcome the help but refuse to back down over the war. "We do not wait to have a full tummy to protect our sovereignty," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told reporters. "[It's not] a luxury" for rich nations. But it might be too high a price for Ethiopia's distressed poor...
...this light, it is more than understandable that Ethiopia's foreign minister accuses North America and Europe of waiting until they see "skeletons on screens" before any action is taken...