UNITED Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson closed the annual rights forum on Friday with an appeal to avert disaster in the Horn of Africa, where up to 16-million people face famine. Robinson urged the 53 member states to donate food and other relief goods to the drought-hit region of 10 countries stretching from Ethiopia and Eritrea in the north to Tanzania and Burundi in the south. Current food stocks only cover the period through June, the former President of Ireland told the UN Commission on Human Rights, which ended its annual six-week session in Geneva.