Ethiopians look back on Band Aid

London cafe owner Yared Markos, 48, saw ‘aeroplanes, biscuits, sweets and cake all over Addis Ababa’ after song’s release

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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