Geldof goes back to Ethiopia to highlight famine and AIDS

ROCK star Bob Geldof yesterday criticised Western governments for failing Africa, as he headed back to Ethiopia to again highlight the plight of millions of people facing starvation.

Mr Geldof, who is returning to Ethiopia nearly 20 years after his first visit inspired Band Aid and Live Aid, described current food donations especially from the EU as "pathetic".

Figures from the UN children's aid agency, UNICEF, suggest Ethiopia is in the middle of a humanitarian emergency, with 14 million people, many of them children, dependent on food aid.