Galloway certainly had a firm view on Ethiopia at the time:

Ethiopia Accused of Misusing FamineAid,’TheTimes(UK),3 December1984(in English). Extract:

War on Want’s General Secretary, Mr George Galloway, has returned from three weeks in Ethiopia convinced that the emergency efforts by Western countries are being misused by Addis Ababa in its war against rebels in Eritrea.“The case that Colonel Mengistu (the Ethiopian leader) is using British taxpayers’ money to starve out rebel areas, indirectly to bomb innocent civilian targets in pursuit of his war aims and directly to oil the wheels of this bankrupt economy by selling food aid is overwhelming”, Mr Galloway said yesterday.
The ”ruthless military Government”of Ethiopia is “deliberately starving out whole areas of its country, paying its militia120 kilos of Western grain in a month and stepping up its bombing raids against civilians at a cost of £30,000 a sortie-enough to feed 3,000 people for a year”, he said.
Mr Galloway said he and War on Want had been criticized by other charities for “rocking the boat”, but he went on “I think there comes a time when to pretend that the famine relief effort is going well is to render a disservice to those people in Ethiopia who are most in need.” Although he believed that aid by non governmental organizations was reaching famine victims as intended, Mr Galloway said he was “deeply worried” that the massive programmes launched by the EEC and the United States were being misused by the Ethiopian Government. “I think it is strange that Western governments, including our own, seem so reluctant to state what they privately feel, that the Ethiopian Government is making a hash of the whole thing”, he said.
“More and more people are coming back from Ethiopia with eye-witness accounts of what is going wrong, but it is odd that no criticism is coming forth from the West”.
Mr Galloway and War on Want are campaigning for the setting up of an international commission to supervise and control the famine relief operations.