Ethiopian famine spectre returns
NZPA-ReuterAddis Ababa
Ethiopia, haunted by the great famine of 1984 and 1985, is locked in a race against time to avert another food disaster.
Drought has destroyed food crops in the heavily populated north and damaged them in several other regions. “I think the problem is going to be fairly widespread,” said David Morton, director of operations for the World Food Programme, which was among the first aid agen-
cies to sense a new crisis
looming. "But it is too soon to quantify precisely. I can’t say if it is going to be better or worse than
1985,” he said. The Ethiopian Government’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (R.R.C.C.) has warned that no matter how much rain fell in August and September, it envisaged a significant shortage.
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