Before dawn, residents were clinging to branches and sitting on top of huts waiting for rescue. Thousands were swept away to their deaths. With little food or water, hundreds die each day. The war has raged for over 40 years. About twice the size of Texas, the hard working people of Ethiopia have not seen rain in the last three years.
Subsistence farming is the primary occupation for more then five million inhabitants.
Two million have already met their death from civil war, famine and disease. A 7.5 Killer Earthquake On August 17th 1999 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 destroyed the lives of over 35,000 people in Turkey. More than a million people have been driven from their homes. Rebels recruit child soldiers and force them to kill their parents to become dependent on the army. Soon they become dependent solely on their guns.