african famine

– WHY WAS THIS SONG COMPOSED?– ‘WE ARE THE WORLD?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI

• . The most badly affected area is in the northeast where the populations of Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan have all been victims of periodic privation.

• the military government spent money buying weapons

• to battle against guerrillas fighting for freedom

-kevin carter –1994

• He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33.• His suicide note read:• “I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money

for child support …• money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid

memories of killings and• corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded

children, of trigger-happy madmen,• often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken• [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that

lucky.”

• Mohamed "Mo" Amin• ( November 1996) was a

Kenyan photojournalist noted for his pictures and videleotapes of the Ethiopian famine his arm at work

• Lost arm covering ethiopian civil warke-1991

• 1996-died while fighting hijackers-fuel less plane crashed

• Mohammed Amin, the reputably known frontline cameraman extraordinaire shot excruciatingly wrenching images of hungry children almost reduced to skeleton bones which hit the world headlines and grasped the conscience of many around the globe. The images invaded the living room comfort of millions of people among them Bob Geldof and Midge Ure who eventually organized a Live Aid concert in 1985 to help remove the starving millions out of the horrendous situation.

ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR-1991

DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI