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LIVE Aid hero Sir Bob Geldof yesterday warned that 15 million Ethiopians face starving to death.
A new famine sweeping the country could hit TWICE as many people as the 1984 disaster ? which prompted Sir Bob?s legendary ?78million fundraiser.
Sir Bob was moved to make a fresh appeal after hearing about an eight year-old Ethiopian boy so hungry he just wanted a quick death ? and a mum who had no food for her kids.
Dad-of-four Sir Bob told Radio 4?s Today programme: ?What gets me is that he just wants death to hurry up.
?If my four kids come home from school and I have nothing to give them ? and then I hear one of the youngest ones saying: ?Well, come on death, anything is preferable to this?, that is unacceptable for anyone.?
Sir Bob then blasted the EU for spending half its budget on the ?27billion-a-year Common Agricultural Policy rather than famine relief.
He said: ?Live Aid put this at the very top of the political agenda.
?Yet we now see 15 million people threatened in just one country.?
Six million Ethiopians are already in desperate need of food after drought caused crops to fail.
By March next year it could be 15 million ? one in four of the debt crippled African nation?s population.
Ethiopia?s PM Meles Zenawi yesterday pleaded for international help.
?The numbers involved in the 1984-85 disaster were roughly a third to a half of the number of people involved now,? he said.
?So if that was a nightmare, this will be too ghastly to contemplate.?
Britain has already sent ?12million in aid and charities like Oxfam are launching appeals.
One million Ethiopians died in the 1984 famine, which led ex-Boomtown Rates singer Sir Bob to put on the 16-hour Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London.
Stars like Sting, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Wham were watched on TV by 1.4billion people and raised ?70million. Hit single Do They Know It?s Christmas? raised another ?8million.
TO donate to Oxfam?s Ethiopia Appeal call 01865 313131 or online at www.oxfam.org.uk.
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LIVE Aid hero Sir Bob Geldof yesterday warned that 15 million Ethiopians face starving to death.
A new famine sweeping the country could hit TWICE as many people as the 1984 disaster ? which prompted Sir Bob?s legendary ?78million fundraiser.
Sir Bob was moved to make a fresh appeal after hearing about an eight year-old Ethiopian boy so hungry he just wanted a quick death ? and a mum who had no food for her kids.
Dad-of-four Sir Bob told Radio 4?s Today programme: ?What gets me is that he just wants death to hurry up.
?If my four kids come home from school and I have nothing to give them ? and then I hear one of the youngest ones saying: ?Well, come on death, anything is preferable to this?, that is unacceptable for anyone.?
Sir Bob then blasted the EU for spending half its budget on the ?27billion-a-year Common Agricultural Policy rather than famine relief.
He said: ?Live Aid put this at the very top of the political agenda.
?Yet we now see 15 million people threatened in just one country.?
Six million Ethiopians are already in desperate need of food after drought caused crops to fail.
By March next year it could be 15 million ? one in four of the debt crippled African nation?s population.
Ethiopia?s PM Meles Zenawi yesterday pleaded for international help.
?The numbers involved in the 1984-85 disaster were roughly a third to a half of the number of people involved now,? he said.
?So if that was a nightmare, this will be too ghastly to contemplate.?
Britain has already sent ?12million in aid and charities like Oxfam are launching appeals.
One million Ethiopians died in the 1984 famine, which led ex-Boomtown Rates singer Sir Bob to put on the 16-hour Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London.
Stars like Sting, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Wham were watched on TV by 1.4billion people and raised ?70million. Hit single Do They Know It?s Christmas? raised another ?8million.
TO donate to Oxfam?s Ethiopia Appeal call 01865 313131 or online at www.oxfam.org.uk.
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