UK, USA & European Union should be blamed for this. Meles regime has increased his military budget about 50 millions while Ethioipian people are dying. He has a budget for his army commiting a massacre in Somalia and in Ogaden. This shows how stubid is Meles. International community should act to save civilians and cut aid to the regime.

All we R gonna die but there should not be someone who hastens it, who makes it the worst possible. But people forget this fact and keep on consuming far beyond what they need...in fact what most of us waste is much more than needed to fend of this sort of crisis. the sad part though is that, what we abuse comes partly in deprivation of those very people we say we r helping, same people who work as hard as ever but with lesser and lesser out put. They don't have any idea of the fact that their very existence is decided in the wall street or the white and similar houses.

Look at what has happened in Congo, Seraleone, darfur....just because of their diamond, oil or other resource ...look at what 's going on in east africa because of geopolitics. the thing is the whole world, especially the developed world, is parlty responsible for the suffering of millions across the globe.

Most importantly the rogue regimes which are actually a group of gangs who well know as long as they keep their loyalty to the HOUSES they can do whatever they want !!!

Very profound images. This is not malnutrition. It is a man made starvation. It is really sad to see people dying of hunger.

The government should be held accountable for this tragedy and for the money it has been receiving in the name of aid.

Ethiopia is the highest aid and money recipient in the world , yet starvation is popping up every year in areas where it shouldn’t be. How come the government is not feeding its people before going to invade other country and spending money for their luxurious life style and weapons?

Recently and at this very moment, people in USA, Philipens are hit by a successive HURRICANE; and in China the devastating Earthquake. In USA , China and the Philippens died many people due to this Natural Catastrophic. The crop failure in Ethiopia is not different from the above calamities connected with the soaring price of Food Stuff and OIL; that developing countries could afford it. As you see during hard times, even very rich countries need help. As and individual ethiopian, I am against those " Lords of Poverties" who ran for raising fund in the name of the poor and hungry people! The first time I saw the BBC and Medecin sans frontiere reportage, I was shocked and ashamed by those jornalist and I found that the photographs of those shown above are taken in the hospitals and clinics where usually and normally the lowest class people are delivered medicine for malaria and vaccination for their children and it's easy to see different families affected either by Malaria and shortage of food. Believe me, I'm not siding the government, but I as an indigenous ethiopian, I see and judge differently than these biased Photos. Instead of showing the bad image of Ethiopian people and their suffering, why these international humanitarian group come with food and medicine rather than Costy-Video Cameras?

thank you for disclosing the horrible pictures of ethiopians. what is going on in ethiopia is inhuman and heartbreaking. these pictures are evidences and reality that most ethiopians faced especially (ogadenis and oromos) let me pray for those oppressed and marginalised.

We spend money on war, killing each other everyday. These poor poor people are trying to survive. Poor innocent babies who want for nothing. We should be ashamed! We will destoy ourselves as we are doing now and have only ourselves to blame. We will spend $900.00 on a lousy basketball game ticket and not feed an innocent baby food so she can survive. We should all be crying as that mother is now. God forgive us all...and after you read this you will go about your day.

And here in America we are worried about getting a new car....just doesn't seem right or fair...why can't we fix this problem and help?

For the last 17 years Ethiopia has been largest annual recipient of US and EU aid. Where did you think our tax money are going to Ethiopia for? The real problem is that the Ethiopian regime has made sure that economic assistance is diverted into military budgets. The regime is even taking control of aid deliveries and diverting it to feed the army so that it can continue to invade and occupay neighbouring countries. Meanwhile, up to 11 million people are facing starvation in Ethiopia. Now isn't it time to stop wasting US and EU tax dollars on a lawless and brutal regime that puts its own survival before its people's? Enough is truly enough.

i think u need to help this people out. its not there fault that the government are stealing the country money.

God Bless the poor, the weak and the defenseless (the babies and children). We are definitely living in the end years. I give to two International Christian based relief non-profits, but I still feel helpless when I see these gut wrenching photos. It makes the purpose for the war in Iraq seem very marginal but not the lives that were lost. As a Veteran I honor them.

When we go the pump to pay almost five bucks a gallon for fuel in some places, try to remember those Ethiopian babies who have died or will die today. One fuel up could feed an average family there for a month!

After reading all of the above posts, I'm not sure what to believe. That anybody should starve to death in the 21st Century is just beyond my comprehension. Sounds like the matter is very complicated, with no easy answers. If there were, then the problem would have been solved long ago, no? If Ethioipia's government is letting it's own people starve, there MUST be something we can collectively do. My heart & prayers are with those suffering. May God bless them...eventually?

egzabhare ethiopian yasebat

Thank you for bringing light to the hunger issues around the world. While the photos are very sad, they are also a gentle reminder to all who read that if you can donate so everyone can say they ate, the picture essay has worked.

Dear Negusse: This situation is not about you , it is about children dying because of malnutrition !! There is no excuse !
I am so sad to see these pictures. I will do whatever I can to help, even if it is sending money to those "Lords of Poverties "

i am ethiopian and what people dont understand is that the goverment is doing this on purpose just like it did 20 years ago. For them hunger iss the best form of genocide. The U.S. doesnt say anything about this because Ethiopia is a very good aid when it comes to the war on terror.

I saw a documentary once about how the aid that was coming in never reached the people because the goverment was selling it to other countries and making money at the expense of people starving

I hope these pictures will help the Americans to come to their senses and stop helping the regime in Ethiopia, which is starving its own people. For the sake of humanity, Whitehouse stop helping dictator PM Meles Zenawi. Look at the pictures, Bush is part of the problem.

Pray! Pray so that God turns his merciful face towards Ethiopia. Pray that the estimated number of people that will be affected drops to ZERO. Ethiopia does not need food aid, she needs God's mercy. Ethiopians have been dependent on foreign aid for many many years. It is time to STOP begging wealthy nations for food and START begging for God's mercy. PRAY MY PEOPLE, PRAY!

Shame on all of us for our choices in leadership. America does a lot on the world market to spread charity, and unfortunately pain as well. We have willingly exchanged part of our humanity for our complaints about safety and a few dimes in gas prices.

There is so much you could do individually, but we are generally fat, lazy, selfish, without good conscience and materialistic. As with most things, we have not reached the critical point where enough people have died to truly inspire change.

jj

well american and uk stop help pm meles zenawi
meles no tink for peopel dictaors criminals family killers

It does seem sad, BUT we need to worry about all the poor and starving people here in the United States.. Let's take care of our own first!!!

There is enough food in this world to go around it's just that we don't care anymore.

Maybe one day everybody will be fed/

If you want to point the finger of blame, look no further than the dispicable organization ironically named the United Nations. What about all the billions of dollars the UN gave to Kim Jong-il?

I have a wild idea, how about if they moved out of the desert.

Egzabher shewoshewun yasbatshew yetebkat.

It's really scary. God please protect them

Fred, how about letting them move in with you? Do you think people can just up and leave and go where ever they like? They are not in America but I'm sure if you got off your tail, offered to finance their travels, INS may let you bring them over. Look up Africa and look up laws regarding travel and relocation and then get another wild idea to grace us all with.

This was utterly disturbing but not surprising. The talks have been in the papers/news for weeks. It's sad that people can wake up to this daily in their lives.

This is side effect of the so called reckless war on terror
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/06/12/ethiop19029.htm
While increasing the military budget http://tinyurl.com/3p7vvr
From NY times, how aid is being used as a tool
http://tinyurl.com/53cc6m
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/47985/2008/01/27-164401-1.htm
American officials giving diplomatic cover while being warned situation getting worse than darfur
http://tinyurl.com/ysmvtc
http://tinyurl.com/5aljl4

This has been going on since the demise of colonial Africa. I don't think anything but recolonization will help. You see when Africa was colonized by Europe, the inhabitants were better off. Now every tin horn warlord exploits the people in his jurisdiction. European powers never allowed this.
Yes I can hear the whiners about my post. But what do you want to do ?
Be politically correct and let people suffer?

Let's all help instead of watching!!! our country in this food crisis .and Pray for are people god blees ethiopia and all people what is the world coming to my lord!

One famine is a disaster; dozens of famines is a pattern. We must do more to prevent hunger, deprivation, and underdevelopment across the world, but Amina's children have no one to blame but their parents. If Ethiopian mothers made (or were allowed to make) better choices about their bodies, Ethiopia's population would not be continually at its ecological carrying capacity.

Like it or not, this is a result of western hypocrisy on Africa. When the people of Ethiopia were so determined to scrap the current wicked and dictatorial Government that has flourished on the misery and agony of poor Ethiopians, in the 2005 Election, America has sided with dictatorship and condoned the Government in view of all the extra judiciary incarceration and killings and other blatant human right violations, for its self-serving purpose of a planned proxy war with Somalia in the name of war against terrorism. And now, we are reaping what we saw. Famine is a result of dictatorship and the tears that we shed now are crocodile tears.

Blame does no good to these people. We as Ethiopians must do our best to be part of the solution. So let’s pull our resources and help our people. Once we get over this tragedy, then we can address the causes and seek solutions to end this malignant calamity that has hovered over our country the last four decades.

It is just so perturbing to see bows of famine in Ethiopia every time the rainfall is erratic. The country is endowed with the largest fresh water resource and huge arable land. Ethiopia has numerous rivers that feed downstream countries. This and other previous famine are totally man made. They are results of poor Governance and lack of political and economic frredom. In a country where land is owned by the Government and that is being used as a means to intimidate farmers every time to vote for the Government whenever there is sham election, famine should indeed be inevitable. If Ethiopia has to feed itself, it shall institute a Government of the people and the US and other developed western nations should stop their allegiance with a despot like Meles. If the US and other western countries could help the country institute a Government of the people, famine would be a distant memory and the country wouldn't bother them for their alms. Ethiopia would be more grateful if the US and other western countries would condemn dictatorship and help us institute a democratic Government than throwing us their alms every time there is erratic rainfall in the country.

WOW, Thanks Meles for showing the whole world your 11% economic growth

I feel so bad and sorry for them, especially the mother. Being a mother of a three year old girl myself.

These photos provides is with a different perspective.. disturbing and heart breaking.

thanks for posting.

Every problem and our vulnerability lies in key economic and political problems which Meles will fight to death not change. We are in an underdeveloped agriculture that puts us at the edge of survival. One of the major key factors to change our agriculture is the privitization of land which illiminates productivity insecurity of the farmer and set us on the track of large scale industrialized agriculture as it's everywhere in the world. But privatizing land is losing the power to insecure and harass the poor farmers in times of election and whenever needed for Meles. Meles, along with most of our leaders, minds for power not for their people.

What we need to change is the unchanging mind of Meles and his folks.

It is heat breaking and hard to say as a person used to know this place. Indeed Crime minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia has done his job of changing the dynamics of famine from the his ethnic based north to south because they belongs to the wrong ethnic group like oromo, Hadiya, walliyta etc
Ethiopia is the number one state in siphoning the aid from the western world (especially form the US) and still blame rain for their failure. The Bush administration dot care much about as lion share of the many will be paid back to Washington lobbyists and Ethiopia is doing proxy war for them in Somalia. Dry season can some times happen to any sates but 3.5 million people starved to death can not be justifiable.

every body seems hell bent on scoring cheap political point insteat of trying to come up with solutions. I don understand the gfact that it's the government of ethiopia who failed our people, but we should also be aware of the fact that aid agencies are in a constant hunt for distressing picture of dieing children to rais money for themselves. and you shouldn't be surprised if they make ethiopia their prime target as it's more beliveable due to it's past misfortunes. what I see on most media out lets is rather poverty portrayed as famine. this is not to say any level of poverty is acceptable but ethiopia shuld not be used as an aid poster to keep aid workers jobs. any way the solution to ethiopia's probles are educating people about modern farming to exploit the natural rich of ethiopia. believe me there aren't many countries as blessed with rivers and lakes as ethiopia.

Few weeks ago, the Bush Administration and the United Kingdom gave the Ethiopian Government $90 Million Dollars in relief assistance, and few days later the Ethiopian Government secured a contract worth close to that amount to buy weapons from North Korea.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE ?
It is as disturbing picture as the picture of those Ethiopians suffering a man-made famine and starvation. The BBC reported close to 30 Million Ethiopians are exposed to a man-made famine of a Biblical proportions that will soon dwarf the 1980's famine. Why are our governments supporting a corrupt Ethiopian dictator that is killing its own citizens by live bullets and a famine that it created ?

This are some of the traumatic images and terrible stories but the more you go deep into the remote villeges you will find worest situations than what you see and read here. I advice you go deep into the Southern, Eastern, and South Eastern regions of Oromia to see very disturbing humaniterian crises. There has been always a fimine in Ethiopia but the world communities get the fact when there a natural draughts and humaniterian crises are exposed near the big cities where Media could see. The people in this region have never gotten away from fimine.

The administration and foreign policy of the Bush administration created this mess and many more messes throughout the world. Assisting the worng side in the battle creates more disheartening cases everywhere, Ethiopian rulers just announced an increase of $50 million to their military budget as they appeal for help to the international community. Can you see the irony? This is only one picture out of millions, there are more of these.

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My God! For some one like me, such and such things are known to happen in advance. Poor people! Inocent people!
No matter what happened, they always HOPE and leave the issue for God to bring a solution. TPLF ruled by a human like evil meles, will yet bring even worst to come. All these was planned gents. You know how much we suffered for 97 election. We tested how bitter it was for suggesting ideas and new ways of doing and ruling people. Thousands and thousands are forgotten in the jell and yet others are killed or bitten for predicting all these to happen unless we do it the other way.
Shame!!!! Woyanie! Shame on what you have done!
Ohh God! Famine again? Crisis again? death and starvation again? efffffffff
You know what? What i am worried is not on the number 4.5 million people! No no no no no...But, instead how bad this number will grow soon to address almost all the people of ours. And the end consequences.
God! Some of you like hagos was commenting on Americans administration influence on ours. Forget it brother! We know the truth! It is ALL OUR PROBLEM and hence ....
God save our brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers from such disasters!
God bless Ethiopia!

and the dictator of this poor African country spends more than $300 million on defense budget to sustain the occupation of Somalia, a neighboring poor country where millions are also facing the same famine, displacement from proxy Bush war. The Bush administration contracted Ethiopian PM to invade Somalia and pays all the money for this military madness? Imagine what that much money could have done for the poor families like this one? to dig a sustainable water-well costs less than $5000. clinics for mothers and children is needed to teach them family planning and raise their living standard. But no, hunting few unsubstantiated Al-Qaeda terrorist is more important and deserves more than $300 millions. Forget about humans being equal. These poor Ethiopians are sub-human to BUSh

i think we need to turn our face towards almighty God. That is the only way we did not doingit properly. Fist we all need to know how can we approch to our father God, start changing from our self and the comunity will change immediatly then God will do more than we asked his help. that is how i understood this situation. The key is in the hand of God. lets knock the door he will open it for us immediatly.

GOD you know our weekness i am bagging you in the name of your mother, holly angels and your serevants who make you happy in all their life. Please see the tear of your inocent kids, please forgive all of us and visit your land Ethiopia.
Amen

No matter what the reason people should not go hungry. However, the government of Ethiopia has perfected the art of getting money through aid agencies. Billions of dollars goes into the coffers of these agencies that are tied to the government in Ethiopia. The government intentionaly starve people from time to time, to those whom do not subscribe to its poltics. What happened to the 10% growth that has been told over the last years. Just a week ago the Ethiopian government raised its militery budjet by 50 million dollars. What a shame, shame shame. Shame on the state department led by Jundi Frizer who is been a disaster in the horn of africa. Creating more chaos in Somalia by sending Ethiopian troops and supporting these Ethiopian government whose record speaks for itself. Most of all under our name. Find the truth under the rug. Follow the money

Martin
Medicine san frontier
Formerly stationed in Eastern Ethiopia

one day you can claim, drouhgt, the other, natural disaster, then war. In ethiopia I think they wait until something horrible comes. they wait until children are skinny, dead. and then they collect their photos to advertise for donations. I think this all problem is manmade. The politicians in Ethiopia are happy to get such advertised and when money comes for the poor, they stash it in their pockets or invest somewhere. We are fedup watching this photos of poor poor ethiopians. Their problems are purposely created to anihilate ethnic people. hanger was in tigray all the time, why is not hunger there now. Beause the government is doing everything to reduce hunger intigray at the cost of the people of southern, eatern parts of the world. Ethiopians government does not need to bother itself to educate people and introduce family planning because famine is the best way to reduce population groth. This what is in their doing. Otherwise they could have done a lot to avert the disaster. they could have put the Aid money they goet in billions every year to produce food. at one time they say ethiopia is rich with natural gifts, such as land, water and forest. and then they cannot produce food tofeed the poor. Even american wheat has not been able to alliviate the famine that occurs year out year in. Beacuse government officials sell it and put the money in their pockets. There is abuse and misuse of funds that comes in the name of the poor starving. Ethiopia is not short of money but it is only directed to foreign banks by corrupt govnment officials and the leaders of the country. there is no hope for ethiopia.

Well, I think it is time for the world to ask the Ethiopian government where the billions of dollars they keep donating is going ? we from Ethiopia and our neighbors in East Africa know where it is going....it is going to the pockets of few elite leaders and also for buying arms to envade sovereign neighboring countries such as Eritrea and Somalia.

Thanks for the heart breaking photos. I would like to ask the Ethiopian government for this responsibility. The rulers and their cronies are spending millions for celebrations and image creating propaganda while these poor people are dieng hangry. The government spent last year over $20 million to celebrate the millenium and before a month other millions to commemorate their party anniversary. They are cheating their people and the world that the economy has been growing at 10+ per year. But the reality is now showing the fakeness of this government and their western allies.
God help Ethiopia to get some day some good rules.

All this is the consequence of invading Somalia, a war with no end, several thounsands of our boys have already died to fight US's proxy war in Somalia . What do we gain from this war??????????????????????

Meles Zenawi's days are numbered.

I see a lot of opp point of view here...

My point is very simple Ethiopian people are very lazy people.... We are so lazy we have to import unskilled worker from CHINA to finished our own road... Most Ethiopian perfered to beg then to work.... Ethiopia is very green all you have to do is work hard... they will tell you there is no rain... This is not 10,000 BC build small dam do something instead of crying about rain.... off course if you depend on rain you will be hungry regrdless of mele is in power or not... but the opp. here trying their hard to telling us removing Meles is the answer... it will not work

This crime against humanity caused by US and other western countries and minority regim in Ethiopia. The regime in Ethiopia is the sole responsible for this crime and co-sponsers. The regime in Ethiopia and the US adminstraiton both comiting crime aginst humanity in ETHIOPIA and Somalia. They are also creating other problems to prolong the suffering of people in the horn of Africa. The regime in Ethiopia will soon getred off by force and the consquence will be very seriuse and i apple the world to act before it is to let.

Oh my Gosh, i have saddened a lot on this tragic pictures. Please God, Turn your face to Ethiopia and arrange all these messes.

Brothers and Sisters, the dark time is always ahead of the light. Lets be strong, pray and help as much as we can.

Our Only solution is "God". Whoever believes in him should pray hard and push the hands of God to Ethiopia and then all these messes will clear up.

Let God Be With Ethiopia.

My fellow readers and friends, the main cause of this disaster is the lack of accountability from the donors and Gov of Ethiopia. Listen, Ethiopia is the most blessed country from the world for it has nine, I mean 9 big flowing rivers. No other country in the world has 9 big flowing rivers. The coward GOV of EThiopia could have used irrigation and still feed the whole Ethiopoian people. The rivers are always flowing with water, you hear. there is no shortage of water in Ethioopia. The NILE River flows from Ethioopia to Egypt. I mean 80% of the nile water goes thru doors of the poor Ethiopoians and Ethiopinas are starving.

No, oh no the GOV of Ethiopia has no desire to do that for its intention is still to break away from Ethiopia but use Ethiopia resources ( Human and Material) to accomplish its long awaited goal, to create the BIG TIGRAY KINGDOM that can controll part of Ethiopia and most of the highland of Eritrea. Therfore, in order to accomplish its goal the whole EThioopia has to pay the price of death,starvation and humuliation in broad day light.

If the west really cares about the plight of the Ethiopian people the west knows what to do for I do not even have to explain it.

The Ethiopoian people on the other hand have to stand up and fight for your right and take controll of your country your fore fathers have kept it untill this junta took over. No more excuses and no more of expecting for piece to come to Ethiopia thru some kind of charity handed out to you. Fight and fix your problem. Stand up for your right.

What an incredible waste of time, money, and talent. With the problems we face on Earth we have no business taking our troubles to other planets. Fortunately there appear to be no inhabitants to be adversely affected by our intrusion. Time to get out priorities straight, fix Earth first!

the the reason is that the ethiopian goverment spends their money on ivading contries and making the horn of africa all turn on each other

help others because u are human being thanks too all people

No way to clinch power by dirty games!
Meles Zenawi forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it was not for Meles, the crisis could even have been the worst in the world!!!!!!!
LONG LIVE MELES ZENAWI!!!!!!!!
LONG LIVE THE EPRDF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashamed when i heard of the press release by the Ministry of Health over the exaggerated reported figures by international agencies!!! Should we argue over the figures of starved people who are in need of immediate help instead of facilitating solutions to help those dieing of shortage of foods.

The ruling government should relentlessly seek for immediate solution instead of hiding themselves for what once they are preaching that the Farmers are hording harvests for speculation of better prices. Yet we are publicly watching they are in very urgent food aid situations.

Horrible and heart-breaking! It's a damn shame for the Ethiopian goverment trying to deny the famine. Where is the 2 billions in aid? To wage war and terrorize the neighboring countries/people and innocent ethiopians. Nothing will change in lives of millions in Ethiopia as long as a dictator is in power.

The western government lost their moral responsibilities but driven by political motives. It's time the citizens of the west to hold accountable thier governments and stand for the casuase of humanity.

Dear moderator,

Would you please disregard the previous one and post this one instead. The previous one was not edited.

Thanks

This is a regime in which its hallmarks are denial, deceit, ruse, treachery and betrayal. There wouldn't be anything that the regime wouldn't deny as long as doing so could prolong its stay in power by a day. When much respected International Human right Organizations reveals the regime’s blatant human right abuse records, atrocities, mass killings and incarcerations, intimidations of opposition politicians, muzzling of the free press with solid evidences and unequivocal language, the barefaced regime doesn't have any qualms to deny and disregard all the reports completely.

When respected Relief and Humanitarian Organizations warns about the clouds and specter of famine and Hunger hovering on the horizon and substantiate their reports with solid evidence and pictures of the dead, the shameless, callous and self-serving regime would try to discredit and deny their reports and would try to play games with figures and involve itself in a red-herring in a relentless effort of obfuscating the seriousness of the problem.

When the regime has illegally sold some territories of Ethiopia in a very myopic and reckless manner in a desperate attempt of coaxing Sudan into not being a sanctuary to any anti-Government rebel movement and that being declared by various mouth pieces in the Sudanese Government, this same shameless Government would try to hoodwink and deafen the whole world by saying that it is all baseless rumor. The regime’s effrontery and contempt to all Ethiopians and the whole world is so stark and ineffable. I believe it is the right time for all Ethiopians to take this malodorously moribund regime into its grave and set up a Government of the people of Ethiopia on its grave that is accountable to the people and its life span would be determined only by the people of Ethiopia.

Enough is enough!

how long our people to have suffer? is there a light at the end of the tunnel? what kind of goverment be sleeping with there stomach full of row meat and kitfo while people/little ones dying from malnutrution? I know there is enough food to go around, if we crushed coruption.VERY VERY VERY SAD, i am specch less.

I'm in short of words to express this terriable manmade phenomena which
to some or sertain extent created purposely by weyane. As once Derg did, weyane too didn't anounce the wide reaching food shortage in Ethiopia before the Genbot so-called victory day. why? because for wayne the dying Eth. people are the source of revenue that gets from intetrnational community etc. so why they should anounce early enough? they have to have time to enjoy, they fill time goes
against them, they got old, accordingly, thinking ability highly declining, they don't realize fully what is going on, in the final analysis, they would be "yeenbuay kab" .
The most important thing is now to help our people by constant fund rising and to find the remidies once and for all. The aid should reach directaly to the people, not to the so-called goverment.ALAS.

Do you know this area is where all our known athlets come from such as Haile Gebresilassie, Kenanisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba, Darartu Tullu and others. It is possible to raise fund this way for this people!
GML Ehtiopia

It is very sad to see such repeated devistating and wreching news from Ethiopia. I felt bad and it is really painfull to see such heartbreaking true story.
Please, those of you have got the chance of getting this sad information, Would you please pass this to all your friend who can at least help one child to save from death as a result of shortage of bread.

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it's very sad news to see innocent childrendying of hunger aye ethiopia yaltadlsh
hager. it's very heart breaking to see such kind of things oh GOD please hear
our prayer and forgive our sin. i was just crying when write this comments.

How heart breaking...Famine has become a common occurance for decades.

Someone must be accountable for this tragedy.

Knowing that famine is going come, as it always has, the government should have come up with a scheme to accumulate emergency food aid in advance. Instead Melese Zenawi, the prime minister of Ethiopia decided to stash the aid money in his pocket. It is a shame for the US govenment to befriend such a corrupt and insensitive government towards their own people.

insensitibe

Boycott ESFNA events in Washington DC: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eg7qUyhiyLE

No famine is an accident nowadays.

Too much spent on crap (read war equipment), too much unprotected sex, no education whatsoever, too many children, religion that fails to help but generates worse, no interest from the country's authorities and encouragement from the various "helping" organisations for the situation to go on forever as they come and aid, and things never change because aid is free. And the government spends money on anything else, well, the people are "cared for" by outsiders, right?

Excruciating pain that could have been avoided. And that will repeat itself.

Es increible como imágenes tan bien logradas pueden reflejar una horrible realidad!

Is incredible how good taken pictures can reflect an awful reality!

From Venezuela.

I visited Ethiopia in April/May of this year and saw the poverty there. I am currently supporting a family in Lalibela and helping them to build a house; but I am wondering how they will get food as there has not been the rain as expected and they can't eat the money!

It is sad. What are the oil-rich muslim nations doing in support of their brothers and sisters in Ethiopia?

it's always hard to look at pictures like this, they give a totally different perspective to the things happening. It's like almost being there, and really makes people understand this stuff.

Heartbreaking are the only words to describe this man made hell. I would encourage everyone to sponsor (NON GOVERNMENT) a child, at least that is something. How the wealthy Western World continues this to keep on happening to our fellow humans is beyond comprehension. I wonder what their excuse will be when God calls them up on Judgement Day.

The pictures put a sad break in my heart .But this is due to the barbeian and supretion regime of THe DEVIl MELES.SO let us UNITE AND CYR TO GODto remove him.

It is so important that we see the pictures. It puts a human face on hunger and reaches out to the compassionate side of humanity.

très belles images,emotion et sensibilité;quoi faire?

We can help with donations to Doctors without Borders, Project Mercy Ethiopia and World Vision.

You Diasporas,
Do you have the audacity to comment about the government and its policies while you have been out there for so long and have no good knowledge about the country and its people? I am not saying the government is perfect because it can't be. But if you really want to help your people, come home and live their lives. And only then, you can know what to offer to your people. I don't think most of you can do that because you don't have the courage to face challenges. Moreover, don't politicize everything. Do you think you know everything only because you r living abroad?? I don't think so.
Anyways, get MATURED!! I will pray for you.

I feel like crying over our brothers and sisters in Africa.... so sad....

The rain stopped and the crops died
leaving no traces of food for life
nothing to harvest, no food to eat
one by one dead bodies scattered and fry

Did God forgot this place on earth?
Abandoned, hungry, stomach have nothing
Where is the help, that can feed something
Where is that hand, to help the weeping?

The ethiopian government which infact lost the election in 2005 still control the whole land like a communist system. Famine and ownership of land are directly interrelated. Ethiopian Government has implemented ethnic federalism which made it very difficult for people to move to an area where they prefer to farm.
European Union has suspended direct budget support because of lack of basic human rights in ethiopia. read more www.ethioforum.org, www.abbaymedia.com

I have seen a picture of our ppl starvation I cray in my hart!! we Ethiopians are a victime of a dictator Meles rule by killing and starving!! Therefore we have to stand to fight our enemy to secure our ppl from starvation and killing!!

LONG LIVE ETHIOPIAN PPL

GAVERMENT IN ETHIOPA WARST IN THE WORLD ..DICTATOR MELES ZENAWI

All comments above are targeted to the Ethiopian government as a problematic for such crisis. Yes, tit is true. The government as well as other concerned organization knew this fact but useless for the starved Ethiopian people at this moment because they are losing their life so we should keep them as soon as possible. Do not surprising, there are a lot of miracle phenomena that are taking place in Ethiopia by the government but not exposed to media.

Therefore, the best solution is, we Ethiopians must unit and come together for ever start from now.

human total count on earth is at max
please, don't make new babies
instead try to nourish already born ones

who needs 9 billions human ?
who could succesfully deal with such a menace ?

dondiba

You presented presented a well thought out agenda that all Ethiopians can rally abound, nertheless it is a short list but crucial agenda. There are other agenda like the sovereity and integrity of Ethiopia and Ethiopians as a nation and man made starvation that is going on under the watch full eyes of the current regime.
Nevertheless, I commend for effort of comming up with these crucial agenda and arrangement for a protest.

Let the peacefull protest continue and be followed action/stragy to bring about meaningfull results. Protest by itself is not an endbut might serve as means to an end by bring Ethiopians together to a common cause.

stop the murderer now

Does food aid hinder food security in the long-run?

A great website to check out if you're interested in learning more about important (and often overlooked issues) in the world today:

www.globalenvision.org

OH GOD JESUS !!!!! Why this bad fate for ETHOPIA.

i can feel the sadness.
thanks for sharing.

no one posts positive pictures of Ethiopians ever.when people post pictures like this that's all the world sees and knows of Ethiopia.It disappoints me to see this but know that there are soooo many other places in the world dealing with hunger issues and all everyone ever focuses on is Africa.Go to Ethiopia and you will see that its not like that!such a beautiful place whit such beautiful people

These photographs reminds us our duty to help co-human being, Lets try to think of them for a moment and extend help in what ever way we can.

RELLY PAN FULL WHEN I SO THAT PIC. I START TO CALLING THE GOD OF ETHIOPIA, ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE STOP TOKING!! LATES START ASK 4GIVENES FROM GOD OUR SIN DO THIS ALL TINGS, WE HAVE TO WAKUP OUR KIDS THEY ARE PAYING, THE SOLISHEN IS NOT TO BLAYM THE GOVERMANT OR SAME BODY ALSE, RELLY GOD BLASS HIM ,IF HE IS DOWING GOOD OR BAD ONLY GOD HE WELL GIVE HIM HIS ANSWER. SO WE ARE LATS NOOK THE DOOR OF GOD, LATES SEEK HIS FACE, LATES ASK HIM 4GIVENESS, MY PEOPLE, GOD HE IS WAITING 4US ANTILL WE COME BAKE TO HIM I HOPE THE GOD OF ETHIOPIA TO LOOKING 4THAT POOR PEOPLE TERES & TO LISEN THERE VOICE{{{ ETHIOPIA EJOCHWAN WADA EGZHBHER TEZARAGALECH}}} YATBALWE AHUNE YEHONAL GOD BLASS ETHIOPIA

I left my sweet country [ethiopia] about 10 years ago.when i say this don't get me wrong,i forgot all about it.i really care about my country,my peoples and all that.but ;today what i see in here is completely different and outrageous from what i heard .i know where that comes from and why should be on the media.that come from PM melese zenawi.but;it's not gonna make me surprise.because; it's his discure.this is how he collect so much money throughout the world by posting skeleton pictures .but;the money never got to those who suffering with diseases and dying by the lack of food.i ain't say say nothing else but i will .....

This is an outrage people are dying every day and it is like it don't even exist in the minds of the wealthier countries. I guess because it is not their people, children, mothers, fathers, sisters, or brothers dying of hunger it does n ot matter to them. I can't understand why the government is allowing this to happen. They all should come together instead of making war to kill eachother and make peace and save a life. I guess to them it is more human to take a life than to save one. Looking at this lets me know my sisters and brothers are suffering while the governmnet sit healthy and fead in their "well taken care of homes". this sickens me to know they don't give a sh*t what happend to these children of God. they will wreep what they soe in the eyes of theLORD

Olá gostei muito das fotos deste site, sou fotográfo e tenho laboratório fotográfico, gostaria de obter mais fotos em alta resolução obrigado! Donizeti. São Paulo Brazil

If this problem wanted to be "fixed" by the US government, it can be in a very short time. These are the types countries the US should invade, then get rid of the corrupt government and install a government that will actually take care of it's people. If you offer true freedom to these people, and feed and educate them. Teach them to use birth control, and to not have 15 kids each, then maybe they have a chance. I don't know about you, but if I was so poor that my kids could die of starvation, I wouldn't have 15 kids, would you?