UN News Service (New York)
14 September 2007
Posted to the web 14 September 2007
Distribution of food for more than 60,000 Ethiopian flood victims has started amid some overcrowding in temporary shelters and the threat of an outbreak of water-borne diseases, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported today.
More than180,000 people in Amhara, Afar and Tigray in northern Ethiopia, in Gambella in the west and in the Southern Nations region in the south were hit by the seasonal floods and 42,000 people have been displaced. Some are living in temporary shelters such as schools and mobile health clinics or under plastic sheeting, while others have been taken in by relatives or friends.
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