The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa) Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Addis Abeba The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided an additional $91 million in emergency food aid and $21 million in emergency humanitarian assistance. According to press statement from the US embassy in Addis Ababa , the donation was in response to Ethiopian government's revised June 2008 Humanitarian Requirement Report. This new donation coupled with last month's announcement of $80 million in emergency assistance brings the total US assistance in response to the drought to nearby $200. "The donations have come in response to continuing humanitarian needs in Ethiopia, where poor end erratic rainfall distribution, high food prices, ongoing conflict, arid limited humanitarian access have negatively...
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