Thirty-five years after haunting images of crying, skeletal Ethiopian children shocked the world, Tigray, the region that unwittingly became a poster child for famine, is taking on a new image – that of resilience. “A lot of the livestock was lost but there were no marked loss of (human) lives,” said Hidrom Haileselasie, 45. “People migrate into Tigray now, which is kind of unheard of,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. With about 1,500 locals working 20 days a year, they have so far terraced 5,200 hectares, a local official said. It allows us to secure an existence,” said Hidrom, pointing to a basket of freshly harvested almonds in his hands.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 23, 2019 21:22 UTC