10 APRIL 1998. ETHIOPIA & SUDAN: FAMINE

CNN reports one million people in Sudan and Ethiopia may face famine as war and an ENSO drought have destroyed agricultural production. In southern Sudan 250,000 people may already be starving, although most of the 'credit' for this goes to local civil wars.

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