ETHIOPIA APPEALS FOR FOOD FOR 6.2 MILLION

ETHIOPIA has appealed for 470 000 tonnes of food aid to feed some 6.2 million people expected to be affected by drought this year. But the number of people reliant on food aid has dropped substantially from 10.5 million last year because of recent rain, said the commissioner of the state-run Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission. A potentially devastating famine in Ethiopia was averted last year by huge international relief operations. – Reuters