Ethiopia government under fire for slow response to worst drought in 50 years
CBC Radio | Posted: April 14, 2016 12:09 PM | Last Updated: April 18, 2016
Just over 430,000 children are believed to be suffering from acute malnutrition in Ethiopia. Many children suffer from symptoms of diarrhea and fever as famine and a drought grip the country's eastern rim.
Drought conditions have forced about 10 million people in Ethiopia to rely on emergency food aid provided by the government and international aid agencies.
The government is being criticized for not acting quickly enough and many people are asking why after devastating famines in past decades this is happening again.
Guests in this segment:
- Margaret Evans, CBC's foreign correspondent who just returned from Ethiopia.
- Raymond Gilpin, academic dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, an institution funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Al Jazeera, Omar Mohammed speaks to Ethiopian farmers
This segment was produced by The Current's Liz Hoath, Josh Bloch and Pacinthe Mattar.