Briefing from ROAPE Volume 11 Number 30
Combating Famine: A Revolutionary Strategy

Five years of drought have gripped Tigray province in northern Ethiopia. Population movements across the highland massif, down the escarpment and into the relatively fertile western region have been enormous as harvests fail and oxen die. Recent nutritional surveys indicate that over 22 per cent of the children in the drought belt that stretches from deep in the south of Tigray across the central highlands and down the eastern escarpment are severely malnourished.