Ethiopia's new famine: 'A ticking time bomb' - USA Today - August 18, 2008

Once, the farmers walked for hours to bring their sorghum and maize here to market. These days they trod the same paths, parched grass crunching under foot, to carry their starving children to a feeding clinic. Read More.

This is a total failure of state management by the Woyane regime. From orchestrating price-gouging through ruling_party-controlled-quasi-private-companies that are monopolies in many aspects of the economy to evicting farmers from their food farmlands for flower mega-farms and for private weekend gate-away for Djibouti first family to illegally arresting hardworking farmers for showing sympathy towards opposition groups, such as the OLF & ONLF, to preventing independent aid groups, such as the Red Cross & MSF, from providing help to the needy -- all of these are the causes of the current food crisis in the Ethiopian Empire.