United Nations agencies said the crisis in Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region had plunged it into famine. “This is going to get a lot worse,” a top aid official said. By Rick ...

(Tiksa Negeri/Reuters) FOR MONTHS, humanitarian agencies have been warning that famine could spread in the Ethiopian region of Tigray if government forces and allied troops from neighboring ...

Harden says that early warning is what was missing during the country's disastrous earlier famine. "We were able to send a disaster assistance response team to Ethiopia in advance and pre-position ...

Famine is stalking parts of Ethiopia. The epicentre is in the northern Tigray region. Villagers who have not yet recovered from the ravages of the recent war in the region are now stricken by ...

Ethiopia is the world's number one recipient of US food aid. Aid slowly resumed from December 2023. "Too late, the drought had already turned into famine," said Gebrehiwot Gebregziabher ...

Ethiopia said Thursday it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, an appeal that comes 25 years after a devastating famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million and prompted ...

with every penny going to Ethiopian famine relief. It would eventually raise £8m – but not before it had paved the way for an even bigger charitable effort: Live Aid, the 16-hour music marathon ...

A Red Cross nurse who 'played God' during Ethiopia's devastating famine has opened up today to mark 40 years since the iconic BBC broadcast that stunned the world. Dame Claire Bertschinger ...

a song he co-wrote after seeing BBC reports of widespread famine in Ethiopia. The lyrics are a pop-song paean to colonialism, reminiscent of Hegel’s 19th century thinking when he dismissed ...

THE MOHAMED AMIN COLLECTION Forty years earlier, it was from these same Ethiopian provinces of Tigray and Wollo that apocalyptic images emerged of a devastating famine that claimed more than ...

Let’s start with a definition. In the 1980s, a series of devastating famines struck several countries in Africa — including the infamous famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s due to drought.