| Ethiopia Drought Children's Appeal |
Increasing food prices and the failure of crops are taking their toll on the children of Ethiopia. Right now, 126,000 children are in urgent need of therapeutic feeding and up to 6 million children under-five are at risk of malnutrition. This is almost half of the entire population of children this age.
The situation is most critical in the drought-affected eastern regions of Oromiya, Somalia and Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region.
The drought, loss of livestock, limited food supplies and increased prices of food, fuel and fertilizer are contributing to the crisis, which is predicted to be worse than that of 2003. Read More.
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