Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa

Abstract

Rights and entitlements the conquest of famine in Africa 1900-1985 a fragile obligation to famine relief retreat from accountability I neo-liberalism and adjustment retreat from accountability II the humanitarian international - Sudan 1972-93 privatizinf famine - Northern Ethiopia revolution, war-famine and two models of relief - the end of the Cold War a new humanitarian dispensation - Somalia 1991-92 famine and relief after the state - humanitarian impunity Somalia 1993 and Rwanda 1991-92 Eastern Zaire 1996 - the fundraisers' catastrophe political contracts and humanitarian dilemmas.