WORLD : Ethiopia Sees Famine, Asks Aid
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Hit for the second successive year by drought, Ethiopia said today that 4.3 million people may face famine next year and appealed for 830,000 tons of food aid.
The government’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission said the worst-hit areas are again the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre.
“Not only are we again to be confronted with a big task of trying to save the lives of over 4 million Ethiopians, but . . . most of them are to face such a problem for the second successive year and in a very difficult environment,” commission Director Yilma Kassaye told representatives of donor countries and aid organizations in Addis Ababa.
He appealed to donors to provide much-needed relief items and the necessary means to deliver them.
Yilma said three-quarters of the food would be for about 3.2 million people in Eritrea and Tigre, where a long-running civil war has affected distribution of aid.
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