22-01-2016 07:04 via news.yahoo.com

Children hit by slow aid flow for "unprecedented" Ethiopia drought: agencies

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Donors are not responding fast enough to an "unprecedented" drought in Ethiopia, where over 400,000 children under five are severely malnourished despite strong economic growth and big development gains over the last decade, aid agencies said. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years, and 10.2 million people - one-tenth of the population - cannot feed themselves because their crops and animals have died. "We've definitely been r
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