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40 Years After Live Aid, the World Is Experiencing a Compassion Gap

Live Aid raised over $150 million in 1985 for starving people in Ethiopia. Citizens around the world today focus more on issues closer to home. At what cost?

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On the night of October 23, 1984, Bob Geldof, then vocalist for the Irish rock band Boomtown Rats, was sitting at his home in London watching the news. That moment not only changed his life, but saved the lives of millions of people. That night the BBC news broadcast a report on what he called “a famine of biblical proportions” in Ethiopia, caused by the drought and aggravated by the civil war that was going through that African country, with a …

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la Nacion broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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