Horn of Africa food crisis

The Ethiopian government and its humanitarian partners in the country say nearly 5 million people require emergency food-aid this year, outside the governments own safety net programme. An additional 1.2 million mothers and children under five there will require supplementary feeding. The International Federations Addis Ababa-based operations team is now working with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society to finalize plans for the major food-aid operation it hopes to start next month in Oromiya and Somali regions. The Federation's Alex Wynter has spent more than two months in the Horn of Africa nations of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, reporting on the drought-based disaster there.

More information: http://www.ifrc.org/HoA

Year: 2008
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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[sarin82]

...because the governments of those countries waste the little money they have on warfare and related useless things.

Organisations have sent billions over the years and they just don't seem capable of improving their situation.

Why don't they spend money on irrigation technology or to buy foodstocks to survive a bad harvest?? There's enough money to buy weapons or to stimulate piracy... but they can't develop something useful to help them through the rough times???

[maria610421]

How do you stop this, it's for the WEST to stop exploitation of the Poor of Africa, the poor of Africa has become a talking point for westerners while being the main source of the problem. NAFTA free trade where Europeans & Chinese can fish in African waters stealing their only source of food. And then preach to the world through WTO about poverty while robbing the people of all they have including their dignity.