En ma qualité de ministre responsable de l'Agence canadienne de développement international, je m'occupe depuis un bon moment déjà de cette région, des effets désastreux de la famine, une catastrophe naturelle due à la sécheresse qui a frappé l'Érythrée et l'Éthiopie, et de la guerre entre ces deux pays qui aggrave la situation.
As the minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, I have been dealing with this area for some time, both with respect to the disastrous effects that the famine has had, which is a natural disaster as a result of drought in this region both in Eritrea as well as in Ethiopia, compounded with the war that exists between these two countries.