Disguised as a story about “North Ethiopia,” the story of the Raya/Azebo & Raya/Kobo Wollo starvation continues for over a century. With each cycle of famine, a generation of Raya/Azebo & Raya/Kobo Wollo gets uprooted from its ancestral land in North Ethiopia, or perishes altogether ethno-genocidally or physical-genocidally. Korem (which is a Raya territory) in 1984 is a part of this story as well as the Wollo famine of 1974. Through the famine policy of the Ethiopian government, since 1974 alone, the Oromo-speaking ethnically-Oromo population – in general, the Raya/Azebo, Raya/Kobo, Yejju and Wollo population – has decreased dramatically in North Ethiopia to the point of extinction today. The following is the heartbreaking story of the Raya Kobo starving again under the watch of the Ethiopian government.
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The United Nations has warned that more than 15 million people in Ethiopia will be in need of food aid by the beginning of 2016 because of a severe drought.
A lack of rain has meant that crop yields in the worst-affected areas are down by 90% this year.
The Ethiopian government has set aside nearly £130m to deal with the crisis but the UN says a further £330m is needed.
Clive Myrie reports from Kobo in northern Ethiopia.
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