ETHIOPIA: Can't eat, won't learn

HWASSA Thursday, October 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Ethiopia's schools have opened for the new academic year, but severe food insecurity in some regions has kept thousands of children out of class. "This time last year we had already enrolled 2,300 students," said Solomon Desta, director of Bashiro primary school in Bona district of Sidama zone in the Southern region. "Now we have registered 1,800." Solomon had prepared for 2,500 children because he was forced to send some children to other schools last...