“Don’t go to the pub tonight,” Irish pop musician Bob Geldof pleaded in the months leading up to Live Aid, the world’s…
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Yes, Ethiopia has problems – but this drought is no 1984 rerun – The Guardian
When the BBC’s Michael Buerk brought Ethiopian famine to the world’s attention in 1984, the footage panned over thousands of people on…
A musician is one of the leading investors Bob Geldof, the musician who staged the Live Aid charity concerts 30 years ago,…
Africans still associate it with a dark period – humanity and dignity were trumped by sensationalist humanitarianism. By: Solome Lemma Bob Geldof…
It’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’ reached BBC TV screens. Following a year of cynical government…
Thirty years ago the BBC broadcast the first television reports of a devastating famine in Ethiopia. Up to a million people died…