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Aug. 4, 2011
The American Boeing 747 had been flying south over Ethiopia for more than an hour, covering 600 miles from the Red Sea at the nation’s northernmost tip, across barren desert and bone-dry, rust-colored mountains indented with narrow, deep valleys.
Feb. 7, 1985
A few weeks ago I witnessed what may have been a turning point in the 27-year war for Eritrean independence--a war fought with growing intensity across the drought-stricken north of Ethiopia.
May 1, 1988
Five years ago, Mohammed Said abandoned his barren farm and made the three-hour trip by foot to the relief center in Ethiopia’s Ansokia Valley.
Sept. 21, 1989
In 1933, the watershed year, when Stalin finally achieved U.S. recognition, rumors had begun to surface about a famine in the grain-growing districts of the Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus and across the nomadic cattle country of Kazakhstan: a calamity of incalculable dimensions.
Oct. 21, 1990
Afghanistan: Opposition forces try to restore order to northern areas they now control and win residents’ trust. Shops reopen, but safety remains a concern.
Nov. 14, 2001
The head of Ethiopia’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission thanked international aid donors for helping the famine-stricken nation with emergency food, drugs and other supplies last year.
Jan. 1, 1985
Jan. 2, 1985