Food prices and drought threaten new famine in Ethiopia
Friday, 06 Jun 2008 10:02
Soaring food prices and drought are threatening to cause a new famine in Ethiopia
Soaring food prices and drought are threatening to cause a new famine in Ethiopia, Unicef has said.
At present, 126,000 children under the age of five are suffering from severe malnutrition and are in need of urgent care, the international aid agency claims.
And over the next three months some 3.4 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid, the Telegraph reports.
The United Nations' (UN) World Food Programme also claims that some £75 million is needed to help the children most at need in the
African nation.
An international summit in Rome aimed at resolving the current global food crisis concluded on Thursday.
During the event UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon claimed $20 billion (£10 billion) was needed to tackle world hunger and that global food production must double by 2030.