In the Ethiopian Republic of Israel, millions of people have starved to death in the Ethiopian Republic of Ethiopia for three consecutive years of famine.
It is hard to imagine that such a terrible human tragedy would have occurred on Earth today in the twentieth century.
The severe famine in Ethiopia and several neighbouring countries has aroused widespread concern in the international community, and some international human rights bodies, the United Nations, have begun to pay attention to the living conditions of the people on the African continent.
More and more people around the world are beginning to sympathize with the misfortune of the people here.
Just this year, in order to raise funds to help the hungry African people, the Heword, written by the famous American singers Michael Jackson and Lionel Rich, and sung by 45 American singers, shook the hearts of hundreds of millions of people and made the world's attention focus on this forgotten continent.
As global attention to Ethiopia grows, U.S. domestic news and media organizations are getting involved.
They have come to this land of suffering to dig for news materials and find news clues worthy of reporting.
Many of these journalists are not permanent employees of the big news organizations, but simply earn money by digging up and investigating valuable news leads.
Zoe, a political columnist for the New York Times, is one of them.
Although what Zoe has seen in Ethiopia in the past few days is shocking, these things are not the news material that Zoe needs most.
As a columnist for The New York Times, Zoe knew from years of experience in the industry that she needed to have a unique perspective and a different perspective to stand out from the hundreds of articles covering the famine in Africa.
As a top graduate of New York University's Department of Political Science, digging into the political reasons behind the incident has always been Zoe's favorite news entry point.
To have her own column on a major media platform like The New York Times, Zoe's article had to resonate with the New York Times' well-educated readers.
So Zoe began to investigate what was the man-made reason behind the three-year famine.
During her time in Ethiopia, Zoe discovered a lot to note.
It was during this time when the famine occurred.
Ethiopia, the country most affected by famine, is also engaged in a war with its neighbour, Somalia.
The already severe famine was exacerbated by territorial disputes between the two countries.
What is even more infuriating is that the food aid sent by the international community to Africa has also been looted by local armed men.
Instead, food that should have been distributed to the victims has fallen into the hands of local tribal forces and warlords.
After these people got the grain, they used it as a bait to recruit troops to expand their strength, and even worse, some of the aid grain was bought and sold by local officials on the black market for huge profits.
Fattened a large number of officials.
In order to find out how much food aid from the international community did not reach the hungry in East African countries, Zoe looked through a large number of food export and trade materials, hoping to get an approximate figure.
However, when Zoe looked up the information about the American Farmers Association's Friendship Africa Foundation, she was surprised to find that the foundation had exported 7 million tons of wheat to East Africa in 1985 alone.
It is calculated based on the average per capita food consumption level of 200 kg of food per person per year in Africa.
This wheat is enough to feed 35 million people.
Enough food to feed 35 million people is exported to Africa, but Ethiopia alone starves millions to death.
Zoe was startled when she came to this conclusion, but soon Zoe felt extremely excited.
He already smelled a big piece of news.
The 7 million tons of grain were obviously not eaten by the people of Africa, and according to the export records of the US Customs, Zoe can confirm that the 7 million tons of grain were indeed declared out of the customs and left the United States.
According to the import records of Ethiopia and other countries, the well-documented customs declaration records from friendly Africa that Zoe was able to find were only less than 500,000 tons, and where did the rest of the grain go.
Questioning, Zoe began to shift the direction of the investigation to the period between the food leaving the United States and entering Africa.
To get more convincing evidence, Zoe asked Friendly Africa's U.S. headquarters for information about their transporters.
However, the staff of Friendly Africa seemed to be secretive about this, and politely declined Zoe's request.
Zoe then contacted the staff of Friendship Africa's Somalia office, and just as Zoe asked to visit, Zoe caught Zoe's attention in a few words in the background voice on the other side of the phone, and he tentatively asked the other party: "Aren't you in Somalia now?"
"Sorry, ma'am, we're in the UAE, if you have to interview us, we only accept phone interviews" The other party didn't realize that he could say what he wanted to say on the phone with reporters, and Zoe soon realized that the person answering the phone was an unsuspecting idiot.
"Do you have an office in the UAE?"
asked Zoe again.
"We're on vacation, and this is an employee benefit," the other party began to talk about his luxurious life in Dubai on the phone, with a little ostentation.
From this point, Zoe roughly estimated what the background of this idiot was, a typical villain's proud face.
Zoe guesses that this guy has never seen anything in the world, so he will say that the hotel with a swimming pool is like a palace.
"Yes sir, I have a few more interviews in Mogadishu, and when I'm done you should almost come back from Dubai, we'll have another interview for you then.
By the way, sir, where else does your Friendship Africa Charity Foundation have branches, if it's convenient, I'd like to interview them as well," Zoe asked, pretending to be casual in his life.
"Ah, let me think about it, by the way, we have another group of staff in Palermo.
However, they usually deal with shipping services, you may not understand, if you want to transport grain to Somalia, the most economical way is to unload the cargo on the large ship to the Suez-class freighter in the Mediterranean port, otherwise the ship cannot pass through the Suez Canal, and it has to go around from the southernmost side of Africa" on the other end of the phone, in order to show his erudition, the other party tried to explain in the ear of reporter Zoe.
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Zoe, who finally hung up the phone, quickly sat down at the computer and wrote down the truth behind the famine in Ethiopia t1706231537: