Famine fears grow in Ethiopia - Reuters - June 12, 2008

Aid agencies are warning the threat of deadly hunger in Southern Ethiopia is increasing by the day.

The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, says six million Ethiopian children under five may be at risk of malnutrition.

Starving children are arriving daily at hospitals, health centres and churches, their emaciated bodies and desperate faces reminiscent of events in 1985 when one million people died. Read More.