CIAO DATE: 11/2009
October 2009
In 1984, a famine claimed the lives of one million Ethiopians. A BBC television report released on 23 October that year shocked the world and inspired the global Band Aid and Live Aid movement. Twenty-five years on, droughts are becoming dangerously common in Ethiopia. By the 50th anniversary of the famine what we now call a drought will hit the region three years in every four.
Resource link: Band Aids and Beyond: Tackling disasters in Ethiopia 25 years after the famine [PDF] - 351K