ETHIOPIA: Drought intensifies in Tigray

MEKELLE Thursday, November 27, 2008 (IRIN) - The humanitarian situation in the drought-affected north and north-eastern Ethiopia continues to deteriorate as severe drought bites. “Rainfall in October, which was unexpected, was not of great help to the crops that were planted in May; only the livestock benefited temporarily, now the people are facing a significant crop failure,” a humanitarian worker, who requested anonymity, told IRIN on 23 November. The area has experienced successive failures...