Thursday, December 10, 2015

Drought in Ethiopia: Avoiding Humanitarian Disaster


The Center for Strategic and International Studies published on 11 November 2015 a brief report titled "Drought in Ethiopia: Can a Humanitarian Disaster be Avoided This Time?" by Richard Downie, who recently led a team to Ethiopia.  The team concluded that although the government was slow to acknowledge the scale of the problem, it seems to be reasonably well prepared to cope with the crisis.