Ethiopia Struggles to Feed Itself 20 Yrs After Famine
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KOREM, Ethiopia  - A ragged band of children  emerges ghost-like from mists in Ethiopia's highlands,  thrusting bunches of carrots at a car full of foreigners.
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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Pictures of emaciated children dying in their mothers' arms during Ethiopia's famine in 1985 cemented the country's image as a barren land where nothing grows.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - In the shadows of his dingy workshop in a northern Ethiopian town, Azemeraw Zeleke stoops over a baffling array of cylinders, tubes and handles.
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Polio, which can paralyze small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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Acute malnutrition among young children has nearly doubled since the U.S. led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, officials say.
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The countdown has started on a  flickering billboard high above a roundabout in Ethiopia's  capital, blinking out recently in red and gold letters: only  209 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to the  Millennium.
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In few countries does the Cold War cast a longer shadow than in Eritrea, deprived of nationhood by superpower rivalry at the dawn of independent Africa.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- She was famine's poster child -- a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body wrapped in a white burial shroud.
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ADIKASHI, Eritrea  - Tired of living on handouts,  Eritrean refugee Hansu Hagos dreams of being able to feed  herself by growing millet, maize, sorghum and wheat.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres accuses Ethiopia of denying it access to the conflict-torn region of Ogaden.
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Trauma and malnutrition leave many refugee mothers unable to breast-feed.
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KHARTOUM, 17 October 2004 - Sudan yesterday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people had died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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MERKA, Somalia -- The handful of grain Abiye Omar clutches in her skinny hand has traveled a long way from the fertile fields of midwestern America to this desolate Somali seaside town.
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JOWHAR, Somalia - Five months old and weighing less than 10 pounds, Shukri Mohammed stretched her tiny mouth to scream when a health worker measured her limp arm for malnutrition.
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Locust plagues may predate biblical times, but today scientists still struggle to fully understand and control the swarms that can bring famine to thousands.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.