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#Ethiopia — As early as 1964 there were reports of extensive hunger in #Wollo province; chronic food deficits continued throughout the decade. Warnings and urgent requests for food brought very little response. 
It would not be until a television documentary, "The Unknown Famine," assembled by journalist Jonathan Dimbleby, was broadcast on the British television network @ITV in October 1973 that the silence surrounding the #Wollofamine was broken.
Consequently, when after years of poor rainfall in #Wollo the 1971 rains did not come at all, despite sharp warnings from local administrators, there was no sense of urgency in the central government. A year and two months after aid requests, thousands began dying of starvation
