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14 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia needs $266 million to help feed 6.4 million people suffering from food shortages due to drought, an increase of 1.8 million since June, the government said. Millions of peasant farmers and pastoralists [...]
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In April the first government appeal spoke of more than 2m in need of food aid. By June that figure had risen to well over 4m. Aid agencies now say the official estimate has reached 6.4m - but has not yet been released. ...
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The British charity group Oxfam announced last week that the number of Ethiopians in need of emergency food aid had risen from 4.6 to 6.4 million since June, as rising food prices and drought continued to compound the crisis. ...