Conflict, Climate and Soaring Food Prices Push Ethiopia Further into Hunger While WFP Funding Runs Out (For The Media)

Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million people in Ethiopia who are facing a combination of conflict in the north and climate shocks – drought – in the south while dwindling resources mean food and nutrition support may run dry from next month, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.