Thursday, June 15, 2017

Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people hit by severe drought by the end of this month.

Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people hit by severe drought by the end of this month, the government and humanitarian groups said.

Successive failed rains blamed by meteorologists on fluctuations in ocean temperatures known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) have created a series of severe back-to-back droughts in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. I

In Ethiopia, the number of people now critically short of food is expected to rise by at least two million by next month, according to figures compiled by the government and its humanitarian partners....
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-drought-idUSKBN1910M0?il=0


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