Starvation Looms As Food Runs Out In Drought-Hit Ethiopia

The Somali people of Ethiopia’s southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means “equalised”. It’s an appropriate name, they say, because this drought has left no person untouched, spared no corner of their arid region. And it has forced … Read more

Ethiopia’s Emergency Food Aid To Run Out Next Month

Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people affected by drought at the end of this month, the UN has warned. Aid groups and the government are calling for help, but fear donor fatigue with other crises worldwide. A famine in north-east Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia was dubbed the … Read more