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The Wollo famine is regarded as one of the main root causes of Haile Selassie's government collapse. It has been estimated that the death toll reached 250,000 people in 1975. [ 1 ] This coupled the peasants revolution in Ethiopia, which continued through the successive Derg regime.
Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture , with an aristocracy that consumed the surplus. Due to a number of causes, the peasants have lacked incentives to either improve production or to store their excess crops; as a result, they lived from harvest ...
The Derg addressed the Wollo famine by creating the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) to examine the causes of the famine and prevent its recurrence, and then abolishing feudal tenure in March 1975. The RRC initially enjoyed more independence from the Derg than any other ministry, largely due to its close ties to foreign donors and the ...
In 1957, Dessie had one of 9 provincial secondary schools (excluding Eritrea) in Ethiopia, named after Woizero Sehine the daughter of Negus Mikael. [4] In February 1973, a crowd of 1,500 peasants marched from Dessie to the capital to make the authorities notice the famine in Wollo. They were stopped by police on the outskirts of Addis Ababa and ...
By 1985, the drought produced famine that has equivalent full-scale starvation. [3] Almost ten million people—one quarter of the country's entire population—were affected, five times of the 1973 drought. Wollo was the most severely affected province, whereas the northern highlands regions, especially in Tigray were deadly damaged by the ...
Part of Ambassel woreda, Amba Geshen is one of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia were interned, usually for life. Also known as Gishen Mariam , it was the second of the three such mountains, or amba , said to have been used for this purpose, the other two being Debre Damo and Wehni .
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A small minority of 25 merchants dominated the supply to Addis Ababa, collectively owning a storage capacity of 100,000 tonnes. This group was capable of mitigating shortages in the city; however, their primary contribution to the famine of 1973 was exporting grain from famine-stricken Wollo to the more prosperous Addis Ababa. This led to a 20% ...