The World - News from Aug. 6, 1985
The food crisis continues to deepen in Ethiopia and in four of the other 21 drought-hit African countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported. However, it added, weather conditions for 1985 grain harvests have been good in most of the countries. According to the report, port congestion and other transportation difficulties are hampering distribution of donated food to rural areas of Ethiopia, Chad, Mali, Niger and Sudan. “Further human suffering and loss of life in the lean period leading up to the next harvest are now unavoidable,” it said.
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