Starvation Averted So Far In Some Parts of Ethiopia;Rains, Food From Sudan Help 2 Rebel Areas

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 31, 1990| Author: Caryle Murphy | Copyright information

Recent rains and emergency food supplies arriving via Sudan have so far prevented widespread starvation in at least two rebel-held areas of Ethiopia affected by last year's drought, according to a relief worker here who just returned from the areas.

The food situation in northern Welo and Tigray provinces is better than he and other relief workers, both Ethiopian and Western, had expected, the worker said. His on-site inspection was the first by a representative of an international r...

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