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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris Osuh

‘Everyone was happy, but it became annoying’: Ethiopians look back on Band Aid

Yared Markos in Dalston
Yared Markos runs Kaffa Coffee in Dalston, east London and a sister shop and a restaurant. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Forty years on, Yared Markos’s memories of famine in rural Ethiopia are vivid.

His father was a geotechnical engineer, and as a boy he travelled with him from the city to his east African homeland’s countryside.

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