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UNICEF calls for aid to Ethiopia

politicalgateway.com
May 21, 2008
        

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 21 (UPI) -- About 126,000 Ethiopian children need urgent medical care for malnutrition and 6 million under the age of 5 are at risk, UNICEF said Tuesday. The United Nations children's organization said $50 million is needed for medical care and improvements in water and...

                   

UNICEF calls for aid to Ethiopia

upi.com
May 21, 2008
        

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 21 (UPI) -- About 126,000 Ethiopian children need urgent medical care for malnutrition and 6 million under the age of 5 are at risk, UNICEF said Tuesday. The United Nations children's organization said $50 million is needed for medical care and improvements in water and...

                   

Major Food Crisis in East Africa

suite101.com
May 21, 2008
        

Warnings Of Food Insecurity in Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti are facing a major food crisis after continued drought and increased food prices. AlertNet recently reported on the food crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In Somalia, soaring food prices, a...

UN: 3.2 mln Ethiopians in urgent need of food aid

mathaba.net
May 21, 2008
        

Some 3.2 million Ethiopians have been in urgent need of food aid over the past month, a drastic rise from the previous month's 2.2 million, a statement posted Monday on the UN website said. UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (Xinhua) -- "I am deeply concerned about the food security situation in Ethiopia,...

                   

Famine fears for seven million Ethiopian children

cnn.com
May 20, 2008
        

Drought and soaring food prices leaves Ethiopian children facing famine UNICEF: Country is facing an open crisis UNICEF is appealing for $10 million for Ethiopia's emergency needs EGU VILLAGE, Ethiopia (CNN) -- A year of drought and soaring food prices has threatened the lives of tens of...

                   

Famine fears for 7 million Ethiopian children

cnn.com
May 20, 2008
        

Drought and soaring food prices leaves Ethiopian children facing famine UNICEF: Country is facing an open crisis UNICEF is appealing for $10 million for Ethiopia's emergency needs EGU VILLAGE, Ethiopia (CNN) -- A year of drought and soaring food prices has threatened the lives of tens of...

                   

Ethiopia children again starve due to drought

msn.com
May 20, 2008
        

Bizunesh Hidana is 3 years old and weighs less than 10 pounds. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 2.7 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid because of late rains — nearly double the number who needed help last year. This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh. Bizunesh —...

                   

Children starving, again, in Ethiopia

msn.com
May 20, 2008
        

Bizunesh Hidana is 3 years old and weighs less than 10 pounds. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 2.7 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid because of late rains — nearly double the number who needed help last year. This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh. Bizunesh —...

                   

Ethiopian children face bleak future

iol.co.za
May 20, 2008
        

Addis Ababa - A severe drought in Ethiopia threatens up to six million children, the United Nations children's agency warned on Tuesday. "Up to six million children under five years of age are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and require continuation of urgent preventive health and...

                   

Children starving, again, in Ethiopia

iht.com
May 20, 2008
        

This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh. Bizunesh — whose name, sadly, means "plentiful" — is one of untold numbers of children hit by this year's double blow of a countrywide drought and skyrocketing global food prices that has brought famine, once again, to Ethiopia. The U.N. World...