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The disastrous policy of Ethiopia's socialist Derg …

Years: 1985 - 1985
August

The disastrous policy of Ethiopia's socialist Derg government had led to a horrific famine in 1984, with one-sixth of Ethiopia's people at risk of starvation; Western nations had made available enough surplus grain to end the crisis by mid-1985.