Ethiopia: Pain amid Plenty
Wednesday Aug, 2008 By ALEX PERRY / KUYERA

DEATH IN THE FIELDS: June rains turned the land near the village of Sedguge green, but too late. An uncle bears the body of a 6-month-old who died of malnutrition
Photograph for TIME by Thomas Dworzak / Magnum
 

Paleontologists hunting fossils of early man in the Rift [...]

Aug, 2008

Meles Zenawi Q and A

Hunger is a political issue in Ethiopia. Famine helped bring down the regime
of Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1974 and the 1984-5 famine, in which one
million people died, fatally undermined the Derg regime of Haile Miriam
Mengistu, who was eventually overthrown in 1991. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
was leader of the rebel [...]