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Ethiopia appeals for food aid for 6.2 million

Ethiopia appeals for food aid (Source: Reuters)

Ethiopia appealed for 159,410 tonnes of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country's notorious famine. Full Article at TVNZ

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  1. There are people now who are hungry and do need food assistance, but what we don't want to be doing is still relying on food-aid assistance in another 25 years
    SOURCE: ABC Online 1 month ago
  2. We have a long history to be proud of as Ethiopians ... If we could develop through investment then we could feed ourselves.
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  3. It seems to us that too often the money comes after a disaster is already here
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 1 month ago
  4. We have the economic and technical means to make hunger disappear, what is missing is a stronger political will to eradicate hunger forever
    – Jacques Diouf SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
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