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Charities have given a warning about a humanitarian in Ethiopia. The North African country has its drought for 50 years. It is expected that food aid for 10 million Ethiopians will run out more money can be found. John Graham from the Save the Children said: "The international has just three weeks to provide $245 million…to help prevent a catastrophic escalation in severe malnutrition cases." He added that if these emergency did not arrive in time, food aid would be badly hit.

Ethiopia is Africa’s most country. It has had similar disasters before. Famine killed over one million Ethiopians in 1984. The latest drought is because of the El Nino weather , which has affected many countries in Africa. Charities say that 400,000 Ethiopian children under the of five will suffer from severe . In addition, 1.7 million children and women will need . Mr Graham warned that, "the for action is rapidly closing". He said it takes four months to buy food and transport it into Ethiopia.

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