Ethiopia: 'Perfect Storm Brewing' - Yahoo! News UK
Photojournalist Nick Danziger has travelled to Ethiopia with Oxfam to highlight what is happening in the famine-ravaged country.
Speaking to Sky News he said nothing could have prepared him for the devastation that would greet him.
"Oxfam briefed me on what I might face in terms of malnourished children and the drought which has affected this part of Ethiopia but actually on the ground, it is far worse than I ever could have possibly imagined," he explained.
"To be confronted with grown-ups, adults, women literally starving to death... it was devastating.
"I just find it totally unacceptable that in this world of plenty there is not enough food and water for people on the brink of starvation."
He said most of the people were struggling after losing their livestock and coupled with the dramatic increases in food prices were reduced to eating animal feed.
"Some have travelled great distances in search of food and water and then find nothing," he said.
"What we are now seeing there is extreme poverty and hunger.
"Governments made pledges in the year 2000 to address the chronic structural problems - most of those pledges and honours have not been carried out."
He went on: "Three years ago we had the Make Poverty History campaign - well, it's not history.
Photojournalist Nick Danziger has travelled to Ethiopia with Oxfam to highlight what is happening in the famine-ravaged country.
Speaking to Sky News he said nothing could have prepared him for the devastation that would greet him.
"Oxfam briefed me on what I might face in terms of malnourished children and the drought which has affected this part of Ethiopia but actually on the ground, it is far worse than I ever could have possibly imagined," he explained.
"To be confronted with grown-ups, adults, women literally starving to death... it was devastating.
"I just find it totally unacceptable that in this world of plenty there is not enough food and water for people on the brink of starvation."
He said most of the people were struggling after losing their livestock and coupled with the dramatic increases in food prices were reduced to eating animal feed.
"Some have travelled great distances in search of food and water and then find nothing," he said.
"What we are now seeing there is extreme poverty and hunger.
"Governments made pledges in the year 2000 to address the chronic structural problems - most of those pledges and honours have not been carried out."
He went on: "Three years ago we had the Make Poverty History campaign - well, it's not history.
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