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Rising food prices are pushing millions of people towards severe hunger and destitution across East Africa, prompting Oxfam to launch a new appeal to bolster its aid work in the region. An Ethiopian villager suffers from life-threatening hunger The charity warns that food prices are compounding a situation made chronic by successive droughts, violent conflict and poverty. It says 13 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Oxfam's Rob McNeil, who has just returned from the Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia said: "This is a catastrophe in the making, we have time to act to before it becomes a reality. "The cost of food has escalated by up to 500% in some places, leaving people who have suffered drought after drought in utter destitution. "Some of the roads we travelled on were littered with dead... [read full story]
