(July 20, 2011, Addis Ababa ) -Seven weeks after an emergency appeal for food, no new grain supplies have reached famine-stricken Ethiopia, the country's top relief administrator said today.
Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, said that only 8,000 tonnes of grain remained in the country's warehouses to feed nine million people.
In London, Overseas Development Minister Timothy Raison said after a three-day tour of Ethiopian famine areas that hardly any food would reach Ethiopia between now and Dec. 12, when a big shipment of Australian grain is due.
Ethiopia needs at least 100,000 tonnes a month to feed peasants converging on towns in search of food after two years of drought. Read the full story at Globe and Mail »
Ethiopia needs at least 100,000 tonnes a month to feed peasants converging on towns in search of food after two years of drought. Read the full story at Globe and Mail »
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