Foreign Government Aid
British Government Aid
It was during desperate measures in which Britain arrived as a savior for the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians were affectly greatly by the corrupt military ruling in which Britain took part and stepped in. Britain contemplated on whether to intervene and assist in taking down the militaristic regime, however, in the end Britain's successfully overthrew the Ethiopian government.
Trucks are loaded with grain at Addis Ababa airport, Joel Robine, Jan. 1985
Ethiopians getting aid from foreign government, Mother Jones, 1985.
Kurt Jansson, UN assistant secretary-general for emergency relief operations in Ethiopia, visiting a camp in Mekelle, Tigray province, where famine victims are receiving food and medical care, 11 Nov. 1984.
From 1984 to 1986, approximately 1.5 million tonnes of emergency food aid reached Ethiopia. Most came from bilateral and multilateral donors. Privately funded shipments by voluntary organisations accounted for only about 6 per cent of food aid in 1985–6.
Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis, and Steffen Werther, Cambridge Core, 2020.
"But in Ethiopia this weekend it was the issue of the missing food aid that was most pressing. For in addition to the non-delivery of EU food aid, the US government owes the Ethiopian Emergency Food Security Reserve (EFRS) 90,000 tonnes. Most of this food is expected to arrive by the end of the month"
Andy McSmith and Jason Burke, The Guardian, 2000.
"5% of the $100m raised by charities ended up with the victims of the famine"
Sam Jones, The Guardian, 2010.
U.S aid and the Rise of a New Leader
Mengistu Haile Mariam emerged at a state of emergence in whic he attempted to mold Ethiopia into a communist state. He ordered the assassinatio n of the PMAC's moderate chairman and urged the killing of 60 aristocrats and former officials of the old imperial regime. Eventually came 1984 in which he oversaw the establishment of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia and drafted a constitution for Ethiopia in 1986 which was later endorsed in 1987.
Mengistu Haile Mariam smiling with pride as a new risen leader, Martin Plaut, 2013.
"Beginning in 1983 Ethiopia again faced a serious famine, possibly worse than the one that helped end the imperial government of Haile Selassie. In response, Mengistu's government turned to the West for food and technical aid while retaining its strong military and diplomatic ties to the former Soviet Union"
Mengistu Haile Mariam, Your Dictionary, n.d.