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World Hunger: The Lessons of Ethiopia: Frances Moore Lappe and Deborah Toler, Northeastern University's Alumni Auditorium...
Elek said he was one of 40 foreigners in Wad Sherife, a refugee camp of 100,000 on the eastern border of Sudan and Ethiopia. Oxfam, CARE, the American Refugee Committee, and the Swiss Red Cross jointly administer the camp under the authority of the Sudanese government...
...problem. Divestment protesters clearly respond to pressures and customs in their own lives and are not motivated solely by objective, philanthropic concerns. If this were not true, the protesters would undeniably place South Africa on the back burner and wage war, for example, against the government of Ethiopia, which is restricting the flow of famine-relief efforts to rebel-held areas in that country at the expense of millions. Bok similarly acts with intuitive and political biases, but his biases are neither stronger nor less moral than those who favor divestment...
Last week, Mengistu made some promising moves. He ordered increased daily processing of supplies at Assab, Ethiopia's largest port, where 100,000 tons of grain have been stockpiled and are going to waste. He also announced that 70% of the country's commercial trucks would be made available for shuttling relief goods from Assab to the parched heartlands...
...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...