World IN BRIEF : ETHIOPIA : Relief Food Stalled by New Fighting
No famine relief food has been trucked from Ethiopia’s northern port of Massawa for a week because of fierce fighting between government and rebel forces along the Red Sea coast, church groups reported. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization repeated a warning that 1.1 million tons of grain will be needed to ward off starvation threatening 4 million people in Ethiopia. House-to-house fighting was reported between Eritrean rebels and government troops battling for control of Massawa. Heavy casualties on both sides were reported.
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