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There was a lot of mistrust and suspicion too, it was the Cold War and Mengistu was on Soviet's side. Coverage was hard for Western press.
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Sometimes I miss the relative simplicity of the Cold War. The asymmetric nature of geopolitics/conflict has wreaked havoc on humanitarianism
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I miss that time too but I suspect that that simplicity existed only in Europe. All over the world wars were neither cold nor symmetric.
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I surmised that over time, though I was even then aware that European realities were radically different. Still, today's world is nuts.
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Possibly b/c of the ties between Greece & Ethiopia, the Greek Orthodox church has a presence there, and it likely fundraised at the time.
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It was covered in Italy too, but there as far as I remember there was no mobilization until Band Aid. Sadly, due to Italian colonial past.
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Arguably, Band Aid catalyzed the celebrity-powered fast response system. But scalability, efficiency & accountability issues persist today.
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