SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia, June 9, 2008
"The U.N. children's agency has characterized this year's food shortage - in which an estimated 4.5 million people are in need of emergency food aid - as the worst since 2003, when droughts led 13.2 million people to seek such aid. In 2000, more than 10 million needed emergency food.
Studies by the International Medical Corps in southern Ethiopia - the epicenter of the crisis - show that up to one in four young mothers is showing signs of moderate malnutrition.
Ethiopia's top disaster response official, Simon Mechale, insists that the food situation is "under control" and will be resolved within four months. But in the countryside, there are signs that drought has taken a more serious toll.
At a recent food distribution in a village some 155 miles southwest of the capital, more than 4,000 people showed up for free wheat and cooking oil, but only 1,300 rations were available."
And then it says:
"But despite the international help, the country is again facing hunger on a mass scale. Part of the reason, according to John Holmes, the top U.N. humanitarian official, is the country's climate, chronic drought and the large population - some 78 million people. He said the U.N. was hoping to boost the number of people it helps here.
"The World Food Program feeds some 8 million people already, together with the others in Ethiopia," he said. "But we may need to increase that, because of drought.""
Today I seen this article which says:
"The Ethiopian government has announced plans to increase its military budget by $50m to $400m, just one week after it appealed for international help to tackle its worst famine in 25 years."
So the Ethipian Government has been spending $350 million a year on its army, while the people go hungry. Phew thats $8.75 Billion init? US and UK support the Ethiopian puppet government due to the Zionist pressure. Hmmm something is wrong here...or is it funny?
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