ETHIOPIA: Kahsay Beyen: "This is the worst drought I have seen in my life"

WUKRO (TIGRAY REGION) Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Like many areas in the Horn of Africa, northern and northeastern Ethiopia are experiencing severe drought caused by the failure of the short (Belg) and long rains (Meher), resulting in low crop yields or even total crop failure in some areas. Kahsay Beyen, 63, a farmer in Afenjiwo village, Ruba Feleg peasant association in Atsbi Womberta woreda in the eastern zone of Tigray, lost all the crops he had planted in May. He spoke to IRIN on...