NEARLY TWO decades ago, famine in Ethiopia stirred Bob Geldof to organise the Live Aid concerts. Yesterday he was back in Addis Ababa, warning with characteristic bluntness that mass starvation would return to this part of Africa unless the rest of the world did something.Whitaker, Raymond...
And these experts are saying that the grain levels are going to go down, which...you're going to run out of food, even though you live in Texas. And it's like, no, you might have trouble with food if you live in Ethiopia, because you're at the bottom of the bottom of the ...
, TV shows, and film musicals likeThe Color Purple, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, andThe Wiz, respectively. He also produced the 1985 mega-hit song featuring most of the top music stars of the time, “We Are The World,” to raise money for victims of a deadly famine in Ethiopia....
Do you know that at least 70% of the human population of this planet starve and many more do not get enough to eat? You must now be familiar with reports of the famine In Ethiopia, where the weather has been so dry that crops fall, where the people are so hungry they ...
“People say “man-made” as though men are the only people who ever make anything. There are also women, and I’m one of them.” But Hulke gives the Doctor triumphant bits, too (in addition to the usual capacious pockets):
Or perhaps this is more acutely felt by astronomers, because really, how is studying a handful of stars in the Universe and learning about their motions useful for anyone in their everyday lives, when 815 million are starving and 1.6 billion lack an adequate home to live in? These questions...
starving to death in their mother’s arms. The famine was mostly man-made as a result of an internal political struggle in the country, made worse by a two-year drought. Burke and his film crew followed Claire through days of dealing with babies so emaciated and ill, you could see every...
America's poor children are not the gaunt starving faces of Ethiopia, or the ragged street beggars of Calcutta. But for millions of them the suffering is very real. Consider: --More babies are dying. The death rate among infants aged 1 month to 1 year increased by 5.6% in 1983, while...
Her mane and tail are dreadlocks, entangled with twigs. The ground is sodden, due to the recent flooding, but as I stand with this mare I might as well be in Ethiopia, or some other Third World country where horses roam, abandoned, often starving, rather than where I am: an industrial...
Selassie completely ignored Garvey and his contingent when he came to England after being exiled from Ethiopia. Sadly Selasie later completely ignored his starving people which led to a Communist Revolution in his country. Although he had been a powerful demagogue for a brief time during the ...