http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8103355.stm
UN 'runs out of aid for Ethiopia' Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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The UN has warned that it has run out of food to provide for nine million Ethiopians who rely on its assistance.
A UN spokesman told the BBC the port of Djibouti was seriously congested and there was little prospect of supplies arriving for the next five months.
It warns after it hands out final rations this month there will be no further deliveries until September or October.
The agency says it has no option but to cut back on the food they provide, which has already been cut by a third since July 2008.
"We have a small refugee population here and their ration is being cut by half beginning this month. We run out of food and people will be very hungry," WFP's Barry Came told the BBC. ...
The port of Djibouti is full to overflowing and the Ethiopian government has prioritised the delivery of fertiliser, to try to increase the next harvest.
But even when the grain gets through, the WFP says there is an acute shortage of trucks, with the Ethiopian authorities preventing the agency from bringing in its own fleet from Sudan.
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My heart reaches out of these poor people in Ethiopia et al in the world...It does not have to be this way!
I just wonder when will it be "our turn"....not long, not long...unless miracles do happen!
Peace and Good Will!