HEALTH ASPECTS OF DIE REPATRIATON OF DISPLACED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN WAR AND DROUGHT-AFFECTED AREAS OF ETHIOPIA

Abstract

A historical perspective of draught and famine in Ethiopia, "The Challenge of Draught - Ethiopia's Decade of Struggle in Relief and Rehabilitation" , gives an account of the different episodes that the country has had to suffer from this type of natural calamity. After reviewing the medieval situation, it progressively reaches to
the great famine of the period from 1988-1992.