Forty years ago, the West discovered the images of the great Ethiopian famine
By Noé Hochet-Bodin (Nairobi, Kenya, correspondent)
Published yesterday at 6:00 pm (Paris)
"There are no longer any natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it's because some politician wants them to," writes academic and historian Yuval Noah Harari in his book [deleted] Deus. His assertion finds particular resonance today in the humanitarian situations in Gaza, where famine is "imminent" according to the United Nations; in Sudan, where civil war has plunged 18 million people into an unprecedented hunger crisis and northern Ethiopia, where the specter of famine is resurfacing after the devastation left by the Tigray conflict (2020-2022).
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