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 PUBLIC LAW 102-274—APR. 21, 1992 106 STAT. 115 Public Law 102-274 102d Ck>ngre88 An Act To assure the people of the Horn of Africa the right to food and the other basic Apr. 21, 1992 necessities of life and to promote peace and development in the region. [S. 985] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Horn of Afrka Reooveiy and SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Act^^*'^* '^ This Act may be cited as the "Horn of Africa Recovery and Ethiopia. Food Security Act". SuSS*" SEC. 2. FINDINGS. ^^ The Congress makes the following findings: S^^^aiBi (1) The Horn of Africa (the region comprised of Ethiopia, ^^ Somalia, Sudan, and Djibouti) is characterized by an extraor- 22 USC 2151 dinary degree of food insecurity as a result of war, famine, note, mounting debt, recurrent drought, poverty, and agricultural disruption, as well as gross violations of human rights, poUtical repression, environmental destruction, and the breakdown of such essential services as primary education and health care. (2) Internal conflict and famine have killed an estimated 2,000,000 people in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia since 1985, and generated another 8,000,000 displaced persons and refugees, a number so high as to make millions wards of the United Nations and the international community. Relief officials now estimate that another 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 people are threatened by starvation as civil war and drought continue to ravage the area. (3) Governments and armed opposition groups in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia have been g^lty of gross violations of human rights, which further erode food security in those countries. (4) Assistance policies have failed in large part because of political and economic insecurity, which have prevented the development of programs to achieve sustainable development and programs to achieve food security. (5) Appropriate assistance should promote real food security, which means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life and the availability of sufficient income and food to prevent chronic dependency upon food assistance. (6) The end of the Cold War rivalries in the Horn of Africa affords the United States the opportunity to develop a policy which addresses the extraordinary food security problem in the region. (7) Notwithstanding other pressing needs, the United States must accordingly fasmon a new foreigp policy toward the Horn of Africa and cooperate with other msgor donors and the United Nations—

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