Editing Haile Selassie (section)

==== 1958 famine of Tigray ====

In the summer of 1958, a widespread [[1958 Tigray famine|famine in the Tigray province]] of northern Ethiopia was already two years old yet people in Addis Ababa knew hardly anything about it. When significant reports of death finally reached the Ministry of Interior in September 1959 the central government immediately disclosed the information to the public and began asking for contributions. The Emperor personally donated 2,000 tons of relief grain, the U.S. sent 32,000 tons, which was distributed between Eritrea and Tigray, and money for aid was raised throughout the country but it is estimated that approximately 100,000 people had died before the crisis ended in August 1961. The causes of the famine were attributed to drought, locusts, hailstone and epidemics of small-pox, typhus, measles and malaria.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bahru Zewde, [London: James Currey, 1991], p. 196. "A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1855–1974"|isbn=0-8214-0972-7|last1=Zewde|first1=Bahru|year=1991|publisher=J. Currey}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/file%20uploads%20/peter_gill_famine_and_foreigners_ethiopia_sincebook4you.pdf|first=Peter|last=Gill|pages=26 & 27|title=Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2010|access-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516155623/http://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/file%20uploads%20/peter_gill_famine_and_foreigners_ethiopia_sincebook4you.pdf|archive-date=16 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Rural vulnerability pp. 35-36">{{cite book|last1=Wolde Mariam|first1=Mesfin|title=Rural vulnerability to famine in Ethiopia: 1958–1977|date=1986|publisher=Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.|location=Great Britain|isbn=0-946688-03-6|pages=35–36}}</ref>