ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A U.N. official says the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food aid has more than doubled.
World Food Program spokesman Barry Came says 9.6 million people need emergency food. This is more than twice the estimate of 4.6 million people released in June.
Came says the rise in Ethiopians needing food aid includes people not accounted for in previous assessments.
He said Monday that the increase comprises about 2 million residents of Ethiopia's southeastern Somali region. The figure also includes 3.2 million people who had been covered by a plan intended to stave off chronic food shortages but now need emergency food aid.
Aid workers say this year's drought is the worst since 2003.
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The mass killing of the young and up-coming well disciplined and hard working farmers of the peacefull Ethiopians like the Anuak , Gedeo etc ethnic group for no apparent reason except being better farmers led to the migration and changing professions and interest in many in the past 17 years.In a land where law is not respected , land be given on the basis of bribe and no security from murderers while out on the field who wants to produce??We need to solve it by arrangeing a system that benefits all not a single party advocates.Performance and safety must be visible for the kurt ken lijoche to save the day and the future for that matter.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 pm