Government has banned photographs of the starving
The Economist - June 13, 2008

Editor's Note: Similar to its predecessors, the Woyane/Ethiopian government has banned photographs of the starving in order to hide the severity of the famine in Oromia, Ogaden & the South. It is to be remembered that the Monarchy kept the 1973-1974 Wollo Famine a secret until Jonathan Dimbleby exposed it to the world; his reports were one of the factors that led to the fall of the Monarch. Again, in 1984-1985 the Derg military junta kept the Tigray/Wollo Famine a secret until the renowned photographer Mohamed Mo Amin captured the famine in horrific images.