Famine, triggered by war
and drought, killed one million people in Ethiopia in 1984 after the worst
drought in almost fifty years about ten million could be left without food.
In the south around 20
million people are starving with 14 million suffering in the east, according to
the UN.
Save the Children has said
emergency food aid will run out by April unless donors provide £170m by the end
of the month.
"If these emergency
funds do not arrive in time, there is no question that there will be a critical
fracture in the food aid supply pipeline," country director John Graham
said in a statement.
The money will cover the
cost of food aid for Ethiopia for the three months from May to July.
The charity said the window
for action "is rapidly closing" as it can take four months to buy
food aid and transport it into landlocked Ethiopia via neighbouring Djibouti's
congested port.
Experts have said the El
Nino weather phenomenon has caused both drought and flooding in different
countries across Africa.
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