Ethiopia plans people shift
NZPA-Reuter Addis Ababa Ethiopia said yesterday that it would move 250,000 people from drought-hit areas to save them from starvation and at the same time appealed for a huge international airlift of food. Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, told Western aid agencies that the Government would start to move the people this week from drought-hit northern and southern regions to fertile areas in western Ethiopia. He also appealed for an international food airlift. “The time it may take to transport relief assistance by sea is now the greatest concern,” he said. Unless an airlift was organised for the 6.4 million people afflicted by drought, “It may now be too late and a catastrophe of the highest magnitude is imminent,” he said.
Ethiopia has appealed for 563,000 tonnes of food in the coming 12 months.Mr Dawit said that the response of the international community to date had been positive.
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