25 years after Live Aid celebrities unite again for Ethiopia
By Ros Wynne-Jones 25/07/2008
Almost 25 years after Live Aid, celebrities united again yesterday to call for urgent help for hunger-stricken Ethiopia.
Scenes straight from Michael Buerk’s 1984 famine reports are once again visible in the drylands of East Africa.
These pictures by Nick Danziger show how [...]

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Starve corrupt regimes of aid
By Dun Laoghaire
Irish Independent
July 24 2008
With his latest article (Irish Independent, July 22), Kevin Myers has softened some of his stronger positions from last week and started to make some very good points.

While it’s true that Mr Myers still doesn’t grasp the humanitarian imperative that obliges us to feed a starving [...]

Lost in the Horn

Stephen Marks
July 25, 2008

Human security should come first in seeking conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa. Favour should be shown to partners that protect their people - whether they are state or non-state actors - and not just to those who claim to protect western interests. And all states in [...]