Emergency food will run out in drought-hit Ethiopia by next month, warn aid agencies

‘International aid agencies have warned that Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid by next month for nearly eight million people hit by severe drought.
The agencies said on Thursday that the drought had already forced 7.8 million people across Ethiopia to rely on emergency food handouts to stay alive.
“We’re looking at the food pipeline actually breaking, so the food is running out in about a month’s time,” John Graham, country director for Save the Children, said, adding, “After that, we don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The Somali people of Ethiopia’s southeast say the drought has left no person untouched and spared no corner of their arid region.’
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