10 Million Need Food Aid In Ethiopia

ABC News (Australia): Ethiopian drought: 10m need food amid worst drought in 50 years, Save the Children says


I have never seen dust so thick. It cakes itself onto my boots and embeds itself within every fibre of my clothes. I can taste it in the air.

This is eastern Ethiopia in the midst of the nation's worst drought in 50 years.

So far more than 10 million people are in need of food aid, while 400,000 children are expected to suffer severe malnutrition this year.

Everywhere people are desperate and in need of help. Some communities have not seen rain in more than two years.

This week I travelled out to the Somali region of Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of livestock have perished from the lack of food and water.

These pastoral lands were once green and lush, but now they kick up plumes of dust with the slightest breeze.

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Update: Visiting drought-hit region of Ethiopia, Ban urges support to Government-led humanitarian efforts (UN News Centre)

WNU Editor: This is going to get worse. My contacts in the UN told me a few weeks ago that they can see a mass migration of people in the next few months from this region. As to where they will go .... they are not sure.