- 02 Sep 2009 22:08
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Ethiopia and Eritrea were hit extremely hard with famine in the summers of 1984 and 1985. Live Aid and the "We Are the World" single managed to raise multiple millions of dollars that did go into both countries, and on some level, probably did alleviate a great deal of suffering in the region. Obviously, the goal wasn't to turn Ethiopia into a developed country, but to remedy an urgent humanitarian situation. Also, very few people in the West were really conscious of African poverty until the early 1980's when pictures of children with swollen abdomens became iconographic to extreme poverty.
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