ethiopia: ethiopians near the edge of hunger

The failure of the short belg rains, coupled with the late onset of the long meher rains, are pushing as many as 10.2 million Ethiopians to the edge of hunger. A multi-agency nutrition study, released last week, classified many midland and lowland parts of West Hararghe, Ethiopia, as "critical", with 15.1 percent of children under 5 suffering from global acute and severe acute (3.6 percent) malnutrition.