Ethiopia has been doing very well over the last 15 years or so.
Millions of people have been lifted out of poverty as the
economy, jointly with Turkmenistan, has been growing faster than anywhere else
in the world.
The double-digit growth is obvious from the building sites and
the tower blocks rising up on every corner in the capital Addis Ababa.
The country has changed a great deal since 1984, when hundreds
of thousands of people died of hunger.
Those terrible images of famine from more than 30 years ago
still haunt Ethiopia.
It was a time when war and political neglect turned drought into
disaster, and for a government today with grand ambitions it's still a raw
wound.
Now it's a place with a confidence, only dented when the climate
changes.
El Nino dried up the rainfall.
Drought once again turned the land to dust.
It's facing as bad a drought as 1984 over a much wider area.