My MERCY mission to Ethiopia.(Features) From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: January 3, 1998| Author: Benns, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 1998 MGN LTD. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Helen Baxendale, TV detective Cordelia Gray, took on one of the toughest roles in her life when she became an ambassador for the Red Cross in Ethiopia. With the terrible famine of 1984 behind the African country, it's now a lush green land with a future as a magnet for tourists. But still 55 million people are crowded into one of the poorest countries on earth. Helen, 29, went to meet them. This is her African diary.

DAY ONE

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