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/ 19 January 2006

Ethiopians face new famine threat

Halima Abdullah Aden was just a teenager when she watched her father and two brothers die during the last famine that hit Ethiopia’s remote south-east Somali state six years ago. Now in her 20s, she is haunted by memories of the gnawing hunger that engulfed the region in 1999-2000 claiming tens of thousands of lives, and fears for the health of her own children as famine looms once more.