As famine looms in Ethiopia, only the neediest get food aid
The Christian Science Monitor - June 26, 2008

One by one, the children are placed on a scale hanging from a makeshift wooden stand.

The mothers look pleadingly at the Doctors Without Borders aid worker, but he keeps his eyes on his clipboard, tallying the figures that determine whether each child is sick enough to eat today.

Until more aid arrives, government agencies and international organizations are likely to continue to concentrate their resources in the neediest areas - weighing the indicators by the much more convenient statistical scale. Read More.

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