Tag: 10.2 million Ethiopians

Floods following drought worsen Ethiopian hunger

by Karim LEBHOUR DERALA , Ethiopia (AFP) — Stuck on a track in eastern Ethiopia, trucks carrying food for the starving are forced to turn back. After one of the worst droughts for decades, the rains have finally arrived, but now only add to the complication of the delivery of food aid. Flash floods have effectively transformed dry dirt tracks into impassable quagmires, adding to the woes of the victims in remote areas, some of […]