Post by chatter on Feb 13, 2006 8:47:57 GMT -5
ethiopia the land of the dead (10/26/1984) time
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.
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africa death by starvation in ethiopia (01/22/1990) time
upwards of 4.5 million people, more than four times the number wiped out by the great famine of 1984-85, may starve if food relief is not provided. in sudan, where as many as a quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding sticks, too weary to take another step.
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.
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africa death by starvation in ethiopia (01/22/1990) time
upwards of 4.5 million people, more than four times the number wiped out by the great famine of 1984-85, may starve if food relief is not provided. in sudan, where as many as a quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding sticks, too weary to take another step.