#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.

During the civil war in #Ethiopia, the Marxist Mengistu regime --with the largest standing army in Africa-- used food as a weapon of war against Eritrean and Tigrayan rebels and their sympathizers. They waged a brutal starvation and bombing campaign against civilians for years. The most characteristic feature of the war has been indiscriminate violence against civilians by the Ethiopian army and air force. The army deliberately killed and wounded tens of thousands of civilians and the air force bombed civilians and civilian targets. #Tigray #Eritrea