On Ethiopia – Current situation
Posted in the Addis Journal of today, you will find the complete article:
Crisis of climate, land use underlies Ethiopia’s droughtby arefe |
Chris Herlinger, a New York-based freelance journalist, reports frequently on humanitarian issues. He was recently on assignment in Ethiopia and after a visit to Adigrat, a town in northern Tigray that borders Eritrea, he wrote about how crisis of climate, land use is underlining Ethiopia’s drought problem. “It is a place where forests once thrived but where rain is now scarce. It rained only five days here from June to August, a third of the usual amount, and the land resembles the desert border areas between Mexico and Arizona,” he says in his apparently well informed article, whose full text that I am taking the liberty to publish here.
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