The Unicef is soliciting the help of the donor community to feed children in Ethiopia over the next 60 days. The agency said that it is in dire need of $13 million to attend to the food needs of 170,000 children – mostly found in parts of the south and in the north along the Eritrean border – who could soon face death due to starvation. According to Bjorn Ljungqvist, the head of Unicef in Ethiopia, the country "is being hit by a tsunami disaster every year" with 300,000 yearly nutrition-related deaths among children. Georgia Shaver, who heads the World Food Program in Ethiopia, asserted that "the situation is not good" and urged the donors to act, otherwise "many children will … die."
Source: UN Aide: Help Needed To Keep Ethiopian Children Alive (AP)
