![]() This East African nation, famous for its ancient rock-hewn churches, Solomonic emperors, and seemingly intractable poverty, has a long history of famine. Many of the older children were clearly stunted and some women were so deficient in iodine they had goiters the size of cannonballs. There were babies with kwashiorkor, a disease caused by malnutrition, which I’d assumed occurred only in war zones. So I was surprised to see the signs of hunger everywhere. In the towns, slabs of meat hung in the butchers’ shops and donkeys hauled huge sacks of coffee beans, Ethiopia’s major export, along the stony dirt roads. ![]() When I was there last fall, the green forested hills were blanketed in white mist and rain poured down on the small farms and homesteads. Parts of southern Ethiopia resemble the scenery in a Tarzan movie. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Addis Ababa, July 2008 1.
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