Drought and high food prices leads to new starvation crisis 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. Today in Africa... [read full story]                

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