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However, according to Peter Gill, in his 2010 book Foreigners and Famine: Ethiopia Since Live Aid, 7.9 million people faced starvation in 1984, resulting in over 600,000 deaths; while in 2003 13.2 million "faced the prospect of a famine and only 300 died".
1984–85 Tigray and Wollo The 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia had a death toll of 1.2 million, leaving "400,000 refugees outside the country, 2.5 million people internally displaced, and almost 200,000 orphans." [20]: 44 [22] The majority of the dead were from Tigray and other parts of northern Ethiopia. [23] 2003
Operation Moses (Hebrew: מִבְצָע מֹשֶׁה, Mivtza Moshe) was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or the derogatory "Falashas") [1] from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984.
The Ethiopian famine of 1984 was far from a straightforward natural disaster. It was exacerbated by the civil war between Ethiopia’s Soviet-aligned Derg regime and insurgent groups such as the ...
was inspired by a series of reports made by the BBC journalist Michael Buerk in 1984, which drew attention to the famine in Ethiopia. [2] The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth". [3]
The drought of 1984–1985 also increasingly impacted the rainfall. In 1981, the rains were 30% below normal. By 1982, the serious drought affected 1.85 million people in Wollo and Tigray provinces. Crop production declined by 12.2% per year from 1982 to 1984. By 1985, the drought produced famine that has equivalent full-scale starvation. [3]
A Tigray leader says his region is on the verge of starvation, which is denied by the federal government.
Famine caused by the Mozambican Civil War: Mozambique: 100,000: 1983–1985: 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia [162] Ethiopia: 400,000 – 600,000 [163] 1984–1985: Famine caused by drought, economic crisis and the Second Sudanese Civil War: Sudan: 240,000: 1986–1987 Seventh Kere: Madagascar: 1988: Famine caused by the Second Sudanese Civil War ...