Addis Ababa - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday appealed for 460 million dollars as a food crisis in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa continued to grow.
"The Horn of Africa region is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 1984, and Ethiopia is caught in the middle," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a statement.
"We know what needs to be done - we just need the funds to go out and do our job, protecting the hungry," she added.
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Ethiopia could withdraw its troops from war-torn Somalia even if the transitional government is not stable but will hold on at least until the African Union deploys additional peacekeepers, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said.
Ethiopian troops invaded neighbouring Somalia in 2006 to help kick out the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and put the transitional federal government back in power.
Ethiopia has long worried that instability in Somalia and the existence of Somali separatist groups in Ethiopia's Ogaden region only increases the anxiety.
Addis Ababa - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday appealed for 460 million dollars as a food crisis in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa continued to grow.
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Ethiopia could withdraw its troops from war-torn Somalia even if the transitional government is not stable but will hold on at least until the African Union deploys additional peacekeepers, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said.
