Humanitarian needs in Ethiopia tripple

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Channel: CGTN Africa · 2016 · News & Politics

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The World Food Programme has warned that the humanitarian needs in Ethiopia have tripled, since the beginning of 2015, due to the El Nino weather phenomenon. In a statement read to reporters in New York, Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General said severe drought in some regions has caused successive harvest failures and widespread livestock deaths.

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