Ethiopia facing worst famine disaster

Ethiopia faces a famine dwarfing the disaster that hit the country in the 1980s, its prime minister warned today.

Ethiopia faces a famine dwarfing the disaster that hit the country in the 1980s, its prime minister warned today.

Meles Zenawi called for urgent international action to avoid a major human catastrophe.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The facts speak for themselves.

“The disaster we had in 84-85, the number involved was roughly a third to one half of the number of people involved now.

“So if that was a nightmare, this will be too ghastly to contemplate.”

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