Ethiopian famine - starvation 2007 -- 2008

[metkic94]

Thats what happens when you fight nature... yeah make 20 babies 19 will die because there is no food and they still make kids so they culd suffer with them.

If anyone wuld realy help this people in 1 year they wuld swarm earth.

[487shawn]

@metkic94 Actually that is a huge misconception africa has had a falling birth rate for the last two decades!, that is an old dumb argument that has no basis in fact! the reason is that multinationals (texas) and China have been buying up or throwing off small farmers off their productive farmlands, leaving the ground fallow for future use or doing industrial farming of crops for China and the west not staple crops for Africa this is why prices have sky rocketed as well as fenecing in land!

[knutgordon]

@487shawn

Well, the "myth" happen to be supported by all half decent originations dealing with the matter. NGO f.exs claims sub-Saharan’s population is growing by a rate of 2.5% a year. It estimates one billion people currently and the number is set to double by 2050. The report says on average a woman in Sub-Saharan Africa has more the double of the global average of children. and that 35 countries in Africa is among the world's countries with more than five children per mother.

[487shawn]

@knutgordon yes i seen those reports and they leave out the death rates due to dease, water borne illness, aids, and a myriad of other cause and have been defunked by the un

[487shawn]

@knutgordon also they are leaving out a suprising factor that is seen in west africa and starting to bear fruit in east africa, the more educated a woman is in africa the less likely they are to have multiple children and even the rate you cite at 5 children is concederalbe down from 9 just a few decades ago!

[487shawn]

@knutgordon funny when europeans where mainly a farming society they had large families a couple hundred years ago as well many in 12,14,to 16 where not unheard of, they where having them for the same reason, it was that the death rate for children under 5 was huge as it is in Africa today, and as with Africa today when you see stablization of a nation like ghana you see falling birth rates, its not racial,whites did the same centuries ago in similiar situations multinational are not helping!

[487shawn]

@knutgordon umewahi kweli imekuwa katika Afrika? na kuonekana uwajibikaji njia coporations wameharibu maisha au wewe kama wengi racest na Drag tu utafiti juu ya baahi ya kijinga kwa kuweka mbele chuki!

[487shawn]

@metkic94 the fencing in of land makes it difficult for the nomads to bring there aminals to higher elevations during drought to feed, as well multinationals from europe and america have been buying up the water rights and fucking with the water table! its immoral and proof that companies are immoral!

[lulustive]

“Who are you to judge the life I live?

I know I’m not perfect –and I don’t live to be-

But before you start pointing fingers…

Make sure your hands are clean”

Bob Marley

[SuperJojo1970]

These children are dying people! What about this is okay? If the money is being spent by corruption, they will surely get theirs. The women are raped and birth control,,hmmm> There is no money for water and rice,,figure it out! How can people look at these images and not walk away, with a bleeding heart? A coffee a day and a prayer..to save a life. For those ignorant mules, that make light...you too will atone one day. When that devastating day arrives, remember your remarks here! God Bless them

[imran999a]

Bless them all but pleasee ladies stop havin kids

[juker606]

it's the only race that lives like this. they still have babies too. they must like it.

[TheHagose]

This is due to the merciless Melese Zenawi and his tribe who suck the blood of their people. They diverted the money collected for the people from different AIDs. Melese and his bloodhood will get their consequences in the near future.

Mengistu Hailemariam is innocent compare to Melese, the vampire!!

[juker606]

WHY WOULD YOU BRING A KID INTO THIS TYPE OF WORLD?

YEAR AFTER YEAR.

[hollymatterson]

I'm pissed that the aid money we send is diverted to developing Eurotrash housing for the bourgeoisie in the capital Addis Ababa. While not directly being diverted though, the reason the government gets aid money is because they blow their entire budget on financing shit like mansions and luxury hotels. Then after that don't have enough money to feed the starving people. I think the first world governments need to audit countries like these that receive aid money.

[BahreNeGash]

@hollymatterson

Acctually,,, "the aid money we send is diverted" for military budget, to shop arms & wage ethinc wars, to keep the government in power.

[hollymatterson]

@BahreNeGash That's even worse. Thank you for making my point. There is a movement here in the US to stop sending money to corrupt governments. Hang in there all non-elite Ethiopian citizens, Meles Zenawi won't be in power much longer. Elite Ethiopians, either flee the country or you're blood will be smeared all over your ugly gaudy houses. Next year we revise our aid money budget in the US, the newly elected congressmen are stingy and will most definitely cut Meles funding. A bright new day. :)

[BahreNeGash]

@hollymatterson

1. How did these people lived before your "AID"?

2, Why NOT FEED your own homeless people roaming your streets & under-brigdes, intsead of feeding people 10,000 miles from your own neigbourhood?

[hollymatterson]

@BahreNeGash Exactly that is what the citizens of the USA are fighting for. But the Super rich billionaires of our country conspire together spend billions of dollars bribing our congress to send aid so they can have control over Africa's politicians and dictators and it's TRILLIONS of dollars in natural resources and farmland. OUR GOVERNMENT IS WASTING MONEY! THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY DO NOT WANT TO SEND AID MONEY TO ANY COUNTRY! WE HAVE OUR OWN ECONOMIC WOES!

[BahreNeGash]

@hollymatterson

These people lived on their own since ETERNITY with out your "TOKEN-CHANE", way before you EVER came to EXISTENCE.

Therefore keep you changes at home.

[hollymatterson]

@BahreNeGash I don't think you get what I am saying, I 100% AGREE WITH YOU. I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO STOP GIVING MY TAX DOLLARS TO AFRICA.

[BahreNeGash]

@hollymatterson

Thank you very much!!!

With natural resources from A to Z, AFRICA NEEDS NONE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

[BahreNeGash]

@Motormayhem

Isn't it sad to see, the so called "CIVILIZED" nations, who claim to STAND for "life, liberty, democracy, human/civil right & the pursuit of happiness", selling arms & making profits from these EVER DYING PEOPLE?

What ever happened to the moral & Chritian values, these "CIVILIZED" nations claim to "honor", when they know they are "EXPLOITING" these LIVING GOSTS, in the name of "democracy, human/civil rights"?

[BahreNeGash]

If Ethiopia can afford billions of dollars to shop for arms & wage wars against it's people & it's neighbors, Ethiopian can certainly build dams to conserve rain, buy generators to pump & distribute water & tractors to farm it's lands.

If the DESERTS of Egypt & Sudan can be farmed from the Nile river, sourcing in Ethiopia & feed the Egyptians & the Sudanese, Ethiopia should use the same NILE river to feed it's people.

Too bad, Ethiopia is more consumed in waging wars than feeding it's people.

[HIHYMAIB]

This countery get Millions and Millions and Millions from the USA and Europ and they still have nothing to eat ???

This country is still making war with its neighbour country ERITREA , they buy wappon for war . I CALL THIS PPL: Stupid NIGGAZ.

[hwiseman1]

Monkeys? They have thin lips, white skin underneath their hair and straight hair. That would describe another ethnicity other than Black...for a dose of your own poison. All you racists will perish and soon. You simply don't get it that all you do now, you will pay for eternally, in unquenched anguish.

[TheNYCbabe]

I feel so sad and at the same time...shame on rich people!! please people let raise our hand and help those poor kids. i don't care about the adults but i feel sooooo sorry for the poor kids. They don't deserve to starv and leave this kind of life.

oh my Lord please help those poor kids!!

[cosmo1pug]

You feed them the make more kids.. The kids then make more kids... every 14yrs a new generation. Sorry bud no hope other than extermination or mass education.

[BVargas78]

@cosmo1pug the land isnt as arable as it used to be, give them aid i say, but on condition of their having a vasectomy or tubal ligation.

The thing is, if youre going to bring in kids to suffer in the world and don't have the means to sustain them, you shouldnt have them.

[yared987654321]

@TheNYCbabe hey thank you so match please dont blame ethiopian people coz we cant do whatever we want i dont wanna fight with eretrian and somalian our goverment is so stuppid they buy guns half of the people need food i dont wanna fight i dont wanna fight by gun any more so now i left my countery god bless ethiopian

[BahreNeGash]

@yared987654321

YARED,

YES, You are right & I agree with you, the Ethiopian HELP LESS people are NOT responsible for the crimes committed in the name of "ETHIOPIA", by the paranoid-insecure "LEADERS", against Somalis, Eritreans & Ethiopians.

The Ethiopian people ARE just VICTIMS of the "PARANOID ETHNIC-TUGS IN MINILIK PALACE".

In the end, the people of Ethiopia, Somalia & Eritrea will have their days under the sun, removeing the tugs from Minilik palace.

[quantafir]

you MuzzieTourturer should take a history book and read, stop making your sick comments on youtube...rather do something for your self...you sound sick

[quantafir]

I am really surprised about all these racist comments, done by ignorant people, who do not really understand the roots of problems and just make comments to open their mouth and discharge their frustration on someone. There should be a filter or censor to stop those types of comments and to administer properly this forum. Racists and ignorants should not even be allowed to watch sensitive videos like this one...they don't have the intellectual means to understand these problems, keep rage low!!

[fizywig]

Underlying your rage, deep within your mind is a pain which your nervous system projects onto people you perceive as weak-this is the basis of your racism.

you need to re-experience this pain so that it can wash away if you're to psychologically and spiritually heal.

[fizywig]

Have you ever relected in your most intimate and sensitive moment of your life, when you've thought "yes, I will Die too" and yes suffer like all other human beings on the Earth?

[chickabboo]

I jumped on here in hope to showing my hubbies little 7 year old what it is like to be without & appreciate the country we live in & what we have. Instead I can teach her two lessons. That being not to become an ignorant, selfish,ungrateful, disguisting form of a human being like the ones who have posted remarks calling these people monkeys and saying they stink etc. F&%cking SHAME ON YOU!!!! What goes around will definately come around..

[Beebo72]

boy, that british lady sticks out like a sore thumb!!

[josephwilliamsperry]

why do these monkeys have kids?

dont ship food shit comdoms

[universehappy]

Come take part of the most viewed video THEONEBILLIONANDMOREVIEWSVIDEO Benefits will be given to people who need food and care..the more you clic the more you give :) It's only the begining

[themaltwoods]

Have we learn't nothing since 1985. $187 million is loose change to the Western world.

[pytlele]

How do you blame a group of people who are governed by a dictator and laugh at a HUMAN who is starving? Especially the children?? U are truly the DEVIL!!!

[frosbel]

lol, I am not Ethiopian or Erietrean for that matter. Ignorant dinkey, What you wish me , may it happen to your and descendants for eternity.

[frosbel]

I will comment that as a Nigerian, I admire Ethiopia 1 million times more than Somalia. Any people anywhere can be the casualty of a natural disaster. But because you are so full of hate ( typical muslim ) your own country is on the verge of total disaster. Is it not a shame that Somlaia is almost useless as a country today and a hotbed for Arab militia.

[amaal2008]

We dont want your to adimire us. monkey as gorila. Somalis consider Nigerians stupidest people in Africa. Horn of Africa Somalia Ethiopia Eritrea Jbouti we all brothers and We will unite. we dont want you monkey looking Nigerians to come between us. Peace for Horn of Africa.

[frosbel]

may what you wish others happen to you and your descendants

[pedrocebrino]

great!.

[talitha110191]

Bless these people of Africa. I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to see your child literally dying in your arms. I constantly think about these people and pray that they will get immediate help very soon! But I also pray for the victims who die from HIV/AIDS, starvation, war that they will be in Heaven and their poor parents get help to cope with the lost.

[SUCKMEOFFicer69]

these people are assholes. They waste all this money filming these gross jungle bunnies when they should just either shoot them or feed them. simple choice.

[asuzette]

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.Matthew 5:7

[tdeff]

Time to end disgusting hypocracy n bureacracy that is seeing 30000 babies die daily. Whilst in the west 3 of 4 adults are considered obese, its even being touted as illness, which is bollocks do u think the starving boney children have an illness, no they just need food like all of us, whilst bill gates spends sick money on vast luxuries, earth is really hell for the majority, religion, politics n money are for the blind dumb sheep. Please consider ur life, do these small lives not deserve life.

[Beebo72]

bill gates happens to spend alot on world health organizations. I don't know where u r from but probably the uk. what are prince harry and william and their grandma the queen doing to help the poor?

[tdeff]

fuck you, typical american sticking up for a small white be-spectacled power hungry scum bag, charity means nothing i'm afraid. Money is relative and worthless to these people they infastructural change not ground rice and water....so fuck u, n ur family n read some books u idiot.

[Beebo72]

YO BRO!!! what the fuk is yo problem? I feel sorry for u guys in uk cuz u can't even take care of your own people. u r either unemployed or in a band!! I love brit music but cmon!! Anyway, we have our starving people right here.

[Jizedi]

I feel sorry for them. If only their parents had decided to NOT have sex, they wouldn't be experiencing all this misery. But I guess when Ethiopians are horny, they just do it and don't think about their kids or the future or anything.

Truly disgusting. Send condoms, not food.

[megan17897]

@Jizedi u sick piece of fuckin shit!!! I hope you catch aids and become homeless and starve to death!!!

[Hakee04]

I feel very sorry about this ppl. Its not their fault & its not hard who to blame. The government of Ethiopia has diverted hundered of million of dollars from much needed humanaterian & development projects 2 military build up & wagged on war aganist their neighbours instead of feeding their ppl. God plz help Africa because we dont have the right leaders who cares about their ppl. They only care about their own interest.

[BlueDiscProductions]

People need to see this. They really do.

[talitha110191]

I totally agree. These kind of problems are being ignored and overlooked way too often. And I don't mean just Ethiopia, I mean the world in general. There are too many people and children dying from un-necessary war, starvation, disease, etc. I will admit there are more people who are taking this serious now and are in action, but we need more than just organizations, we EVERYONE to admit to the facts that people ARE dying. They cannot do this alone!

[ChristianMuslim247]

The NWO (NEW World Orderis responsible for all this shit.

[EthioJegna5]

Eritrea - 75% of Eritreans are undernourished ; highest rate in the world - report

[esue12]

Oromo people are good people...How come nobody knows that the governmet is killing them all. There is no question at all and it is going to catch up to meles soon.

[adugenetyene]

i cant wait for the damb war to start, put all those idiot eritreans in that fucking red sea and take their lil tiny country shiiiiiiiiiiit ,they migrating back to ethiopia like crazy ,they are one of the reason why this ppl are hungry ,ethio gov supporting them eritreans and forgot about his owne. fuckers go back to ur shit.......hate them men.....death for eritreans

[hbobula]

The ethiopians should do the world a favore. They should all die by famine so that the world can concentrate on more important world issues. Getting fed by the international community is becoming the norm in ethiopia.

In short, they do not want to learn how to do things by them selves.

[1CasuConsulto]

i hope u get to live in ethiopia and then ill see u talk u bastard

[hbobula]

Man, why do you wish me to live in your cursed land? That is the worst wish you will grant to any civilized human being. Your country and you people suck. Yes you are beggars and are shame of Africa. Again yes, you all need to die of famine, so that the world has less lazy bums mouths to feed.

[kdense08]

I love how you ignore my first two points to talk about Russia, you coward.Your just a stupid tiny little man who says dumb shit for the shock value.Sorry to say I'm not offended by you or your comments.You're like the drunk uncle who says dumb shit from time to time.Rape,disease,starvation and homelessness are all prevalent in Russia;oops, just shot a huge hole in your logic.

Goodnight,try to get some sleep and come up with something better in the mourning.

[1CasuConsulto]

dunno wt ur on about russia.. im from russia n id say that who cares about russia when u got ethiopia... at least ppl in russia eat (tho we have poverty and homelesness). in ethiopia its all so much worse.. no food at all. im gona help africa as soon as i work..

[kdense08]

This asshole was saying that black people can't run a gov't.I mean you no offense, nothing personal just trying to make a point.I'm glad to see you want to be a part of the solution.

[kdense08]

1)if there is a God he doesn't hive half a shit about earth.

2)AIDS was man made.

3)How do you explain Russia's problems? it's a white population,right?

[kdense08]

where do you think AIDS came from?I'll give you a hint: a lab in some asshole's beaker through a doctor's syringe and into an innocent person's(looking for a polio vaccine) arm.

[kdense08]

I wish I could say you were right but I can't.Your boss is probably black.

[TheNaturalWoman]

High five on your comment, kdense!

[lulustive]

Food aid can not bring long lasting solution, corruption is there, political prosecution is there ...the government of Ethiopia always denies the existence of the problems and famines and tells it's people every thing is ok ...but how can a solution emanate from the government if it doesn't recognized the problem?

[kdense08]

our gov't is no better.probably worse.