... or not improving: Lessons from KOREM

Yesterday we saw a BBC video dated 1984 about the famine and hunger in Ethiopia that time. The tape was recorded in Korem, a town north of Addis.

The video is available to download using emule. You can search ETHIOPIA and BBC (If you want full details email me).

It was devastating to us, but still we recommend you to have a look on it. You can't close your eyes to that kind of things. We can't close our eyes to what's happening today in Darfur-Sudan or Niger.

Now 20 years later the same reporter Michael Buerk is back to the same place. This report is a touching story of "now and then".
BBC News story: Ethiopia more aid, more hunger still Also available to download from emule.

The main story is that of Birhan Woldu, the girl that was given as dead in the 1984 famine, but that today is alive and healthy. She was in the "Live 8" concert together with Madonna.

But maybe you want to read the other part of the story. Jennie Bristow is a journalist who claims that these concerts do not make a difference, and their only intention is to make us feel better...
What is your opinion? Feel free to comment.
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If only we could make a difference.