Reuters photos show ordinary Ethiopians struggling with the daily chore of getting food and water. September rainfall in key farming areas was close to normal, but a recent survey by the country's Health Ministry and U.N. agencies found alarmingly high malnutrition rates in some areas.
LYG03D:FAMINE-ETHIOPIA:LAY-GAYINT,
ETHIOPIA,24APR00 - An Amharic woman
prepares to take home a pot of clean
drinking water April 24, in the town of
Lay-Gayint in South Gonder region, from
a water point donated by a western
government. The international community
has rallied in response to Ethopian
appeals for help from the threat of
fammine, with the United States pledging
some 400,000 tonnes of food and the
European Union also promising assistance.
The United Nations estimates up to 16
million people could be affected in a
region it has defied as the Greater Horn
of Africa, stretching from Djibouti in
the north, through Sudan to Tanzania in
the south. (CANADA OUT) gm/Photo by
George Mulala
REUTERS
REF: LYG03D
ASM02:ETHIOPIA-ERITREA:DROON,ERITREA,
19MAY00 - Women and children fleeing
from Ertirea's western lowlands arrive
at a reception centre in the Eritrean
town of Droon about 180 km, about 120 km
from the capital Asmara from the
frontline on May 18. About half a
million have fled the fighting between
Eritrean and Ethiopian forces. ss/
Photo by Sami Sallinen
REUTERS
REF: ASM02
An Ethiopian family carry their food
home from a feeding center in Lalibela,
700km from the capital Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, May 30, 2003. Lalibela was one
of the biggest affected regions in the
1984 drought which killed up to a
million people. REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: LAB07D
ADI06D:FAMINE-ETHIOPIA:DANAN,ETHIOPIA,
8APR00 - Two women walk to fetch water
delivered to the town of Danan some six
hundred kilometers south-east of Addis
Ababa April 7. Eight children are dying
every day from famine in Ethiopia's
remote Ogaden region. Close to eight
million Ethiopians are threatened by
drought and will need food aid this year
after a string of failed rainy seasons.
pa/Photo by Peter Andrews
REUTERS
REF: ADI06D
An Ethiopian man carries food home from
a feeding center in Lalibela 700km from
the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May
30, 2003. Lalibela was one of the
biggest affected regions in the 1984
drought which killed up to a million
people. REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: LAB011D
An Ethiopian woman carries firewood in
Sekota, an overshadowed by drought
village 830km from the capital Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, May 31, 2003. Sekota
was one of the biggest affected regions
in the 1984 drought which killed up to a
million people. Bob Geldof, who
organized the world's biggest rock
concert in 1985 to help Africa's
starving, is visiting Ethiopia to
highlight a looming humanitarian crisis.
Aid agencies estimate 14 million
Ethiopians are at risk of starvation
after the worst drought in nearly two
decades. REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: SKT01D
LAL01D:FAMINE-ETHIOPIA:LALIBELA,ETHIOPIA,
22APR00 - A villager sells maize flour
donated by the USA government at the
Lalibela open market April 22. Although
children are dying from starvation in
the southern parts of Ethiopia, nothern
sections which were the most affected in
the last famine have been untouched but
still continued to enjoy the goodwill of
the rest of the world by providing them
with food relief. (CANADA OUT) gm/
Photo by George Mulala
REUTERS
REF: LAL01
ADD02:ETHIOPIA-TWINS:ADDIS ABABA,
ETHIOPIA,10FEB99 - Mothers feed their
twin babies February 10 at the Gemini
Trust charity aimed at helping poor
families who suffer hardship as a
consequence of twin births. Ethiopia,
one of the world's poorest countries,
has proportionally twice as many twin
births as in Europe. Given Ethiopia's
poverty and the twin's often prematurity
and low birth rate, statistically 30% of
them die before the age of one. cd/
Photo by Corinne Dufka
REUTERS
REF: ADD02
An Ethiopian woman carries water in a
gourd at a village in the outskirts of
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 27, 2003.
Irish pop singer Bob Geldof, who
organized the world's biggest rock
concert in 1985 to help Africa's
starving, is visiting Ethiopia to
highlight a looming humanitarian crisis.
Aid agencies estimate 14 million
Ethiopians are at risk of starvation
after the worst drought in nearly two
decades. REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: NAI10D
ADD01D:ETHIOPIA:ADDIS ABABA,2JUN00 - An
Ethiopian woman carries a load of cow
dung to market June 2 which she will
sell as fuel. Ethiopia has announced
that its two year border war with
Eritrea is over saying it wants to
concentrate its efforts in poverty
reduction progammes for its 60 million
people, 60 percent of whom, like this
woman, live below the poverty line. gm/
Photo by George Mulala
REUTERS
REF: ADD01D
