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    widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia's 38–40...
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  • Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture, with an aristocracy...
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    The 1972–1975 Wollo famine was a major famine in the Ethiopian Empire during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. The famine widely ravaged the two provinces...
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  • received and that it had the potential to become the worst famine since the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. 3.6 million children were reported to be "acutely malnourished...
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    Mengistu Haile Mariam (category Presidents of Ethiopia)
    500,000 to 2,000,000 Ethiopians, mostly during the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. Mengistu Haile Mariam was born on 21 May 1937 in Welayta, Kaffa during...
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    Bengal famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Famine in India Famines in the Czech lands Famines in Ethiopia Great Bengal famine of 1770...
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  • in the late 18th or early 19th century 19831985 famine in Ethiopia 2008–2009 Kenya drought 2011 East Africa drought Sahel drought 2010 Sahel famine 2012...
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    Ali Hewson (category All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English)
    In late 1985, following U2's participation in Live Aid, Bono and Hewson spent five weeks as aid volunteers in Ajibar during the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia...
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    of Ethiopia 19831985 famine in Ethiopia Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Vice President of Ethiopia The World Factbook (PDF). CIA. 1982. p. 85. "Ethiopia Ends...
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  • World Rock Day (category Public holidays in Brazil)
    by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure on July 13, 1985, to raise funds for relief of the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia; however, even though the holiday is called...
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    estimated the total death rate of the terror in 150,000. During the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia, United Nations estimated the number of deaths by hunger about...
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    among which only 1% had died in areas classified as being under "famine (phase 5)". 19831985 famine in Ethiopia Famine in Yemen (2016–present) 2021 Somali...
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    Conflict & The Struggle for Relief". Human Rights Watch. 26 March 1992. Retrieved 12 September 2022. 19831985 famine in Ethiopia 2011 East Africa Drought...
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    Shibir and the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia resulting in 400,000 deaths. The EPRDF was formed by the union of the TPLF and the Ethiopian People's Democratic...
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  • Band Aid (band) (category Charities based in London)
    money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The group was composed of forty artists to raise awareness and funds for the Ethiopian famine in 19831985. The group's...
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    Korean famine of the 1990s, and the Ethiopian famine of 19831985. Approximately 3 million died as a consequence of the Second Congo War. The Ethiopian famine...
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    including the 19831985 famine, reliance on foreign aid, and the decline of the world communist movement. The Soviet Union ended support of the PDRE in 1990,...
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  • Live Aid (redirect from Live Aid 1985)
    13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement...
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  • coordinating international aid for Eritreans, particularly during the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. Following Eritrean independence Tesfagiorgis was appointed to...
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    Tigrayans (category Ethnic groups in Ethiopia)
    Haile Mariam-led brutal military dictatorship (Derg) used the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia as government policy (by restricting food supplies) for counter-insurgency...
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    campaigns and the Qey Shibir (Ethiopian Red Terror) to repress the rebels. By the mid-1980s, various issues such as the 19831985 famine, economic decline, and...
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    influenced by observation of the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. Rather, many Rastas saw the idea of returning to Africa in a metaphorical sense, entailing...
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  • We Are the World (category 1985 songs)
    for the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia, which killed about one million people. Belafonte also planned to set aside money to help eliminate hunger in the United...
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  • Do They Know It's Christmas? (category 1985 singles)
    Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band...
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    Comic Relief (category 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia. The concept...
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    but the delay cost lives. 19831985 famine in Ethiopia 2017 Somali drought ActionAid Desertification Environmental issues in Africa La Niña Horn of Africa...
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    Trevor Horn (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    Know It's Christmas?", a charity song to raise money for the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. Horn was receptive but said he would need at least six weeks...
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  • It achieved popularity in the gay clubs and discos where many new records were promoted into the mainstream as Hi-NRG. In 1983, Stock had been approached...
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  • Fred Cuny (category Missing person cases in Russia)
    Instead of rushing in construction materials from outside the region, he used local materials. During the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia, Cuny conducted assessments...
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  • Timeline of the Derg (category Ethiopian history timelines)
    invasion of Ethiopia by Somalia. 19831985 famine in Ethiopia began in Ethiopia's four provinces: Hararghe, Gojjam, Wollo, and Tigray, resulting in 400,000...
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