World Briefing: Africa
June 19, 2003
ETHIOPIA: U.S. INCREASES FOOD AID The United States plans to give an additional 63,800 tons of food to Ethiopia to cope with a severe drought that Washington has warned could lead to more famine. The American ambassador to the Rome-based United Nations food agency said this week that Ethiopians' hunger had been largely ignored and that a huge mobilization of relief aid was needed. __ (Reuters)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/in...14b3359da1ef01