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East Africa's drought: the avoidable disaster
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East Africa's drought: the avoidable disaster
East Africa's drought: the avoidable disaster
Tens of thousands of lives could have been spared if agencies and governments had heeded the warnings, a report says
The deaths of tens of thousands of people during the drought in east Africa could have been avoided if the international community, donor governments and humanitarian agencies had responded earlier and more swiftly to clear warning signs that a disaster was in the making, according to a new report.
Figures compiled by the Department for International Development (DfID) suggest that between 50,000 and 100,000 people, more than half of them children under five, died in the 2011 Horn of Africa crisis that affected Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
The US government estimates separately that more than 29,000 children under five died in the space of 90 days from May to July last year. The accompanying destruction of livelihoods, livestock and local market systems affected 13 million people overall. Hundreds of thousands remain at continuing risk of malnutrition.
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The flow of Billions of dollars is not enough, the rich drop cereals and oil by helicopters for decades, but in no vail! Hard to understand
There is NO drought or starvation problem in Ethiopia because there is a lot of fertile land to feed everybody.
Meles refuses the land to be farmed by Ethiopians. Instead he is selling it for his greed.
The mystery of famine and starvation is all EPRDF and Meles made scheme to kill and to loot Ethiopians. EPRDF government doesn’t represent or stands to care for Ethiopia. It is also about amassing wealth in Ethiopia and from donations.
Ethiopians fertile land now is being sold to feed foreigners in huge acres equal to nation sizes. Ethiopians who owned and farmed their land for centuries are not being evicted by a government that try to be like as an Ethiopian.
If Meles is ousted the country will be able to feed the nation of India, Saudi Arabai and other nations after all Ethiopians are fed.
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