East Africa's hunger

  • 14/08/2008

  • Frontline (Chennai)

MORE than 14 million people in the East Africa region require urgent food aid owing to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say. In an emergency appeal on July 24, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed "towards severe hunger and destitution". Earlier the United Nations said it needed