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Article: Ethiopian Food Aid Imperiled; Civil War Clashes Slow Relief Efforts
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- The Washington Post
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- March 5, 1988
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Ethiopia's long-running civil war is beginning to strangle
emergency food distribution in the country's drought-stricken north,
putting more than 1 million Ethiopians at what senior western relief
officials here describe as the "knife-edge of disaster."
Unless relief trucks gain greater access to roads blocked by the
Ethiopian military for much of last month, these officials said, the
feeding camps that were centers of disease and death during the last
famine, in 1984 and 1985, will be inevitable.
"If the roads are not opened we will not succeed, and there will
be mass migration and starvation," predicted Jean-Jacques Fresard,
director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, one ...