Ethiopia Faces Food Crisis - Video

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VIDEO: Ethiopia faces food crisis

03 Sep 2008 06:33:00 GMT
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Source: Reuters

<!-- AN5.0 article title end --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.alertnet.org/bin/js/article.js"></script><input value="13" name="CurrentSize" id="CurrentSize" type="hidden"><!-- VIDEO: Ethiopia faces food crisis --><!-- Reuters --> Sept. 2 - Top UN aid official John Holmes has called for greater international efforts to help millions of Ethiopians suffering severe drought. Some eight million people need urgent food relief and another 4.6 million need emergency assistance. A lack of rain in the main February to April wet season has also left at least 75,000 children under the age of five at risk of malnutrition.

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Egypt offers additional food aid for drought victims in Ethiopia 9/4/2008 10:02:00 PM


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Addis Ababa- Egypt on Thursday presented a consignment of additional food aid to the agency and the willingness of the Ethiopian Disaster Response to support their efforts in providing food for victims of drought that hit several areas south and east of the country due to lack of rain during the past season, which begins mid-February and lasts until mid-April of each year.

وأوضح بيان للسفارة المصرية بإثيوبيا وبحسب وكالة انباء الشرق الاوسط أن شحنة المعونات التى تقدر ب 20 طنا من المواد الغذائية تعد الثالثة من نوعها خلال العام الجارى 2008 وتأتى استجابة للاحتياجات الإنسانية الضرورية بإثيوبيا، فى إطار العلاقات الثنائية الممتازة التى تربط مصر بإثيوبيا. A statement by the Embassy of Ethiopia, according to Egyptian Middle East News Agency that the aid shipment, which is estimated at 20 tons of foodstuffs is the third of its kind during the current year 2008 comes in response to the essential humanitarian needs in Ethiopia, under the excellent bilateral relations between Egypt, Ethiopia.

وأشار البيان إلى أن مصر تقدم مساعدات لإثيوبيا لتطبيق خططها التنموية ومكافحة الجوع وسوء التغذية وتخفيف آثار الجفاف من خلال تقديم الدعم الفنى والإنسانى.وتعهد البيان بأن تواصل مصر سياستها طويلة الأمد بهذا الصدد فى إطار تضامنها مع حكومة وشعب إثيوبيا .. The statement pointed out that Egypt is offering assistance to Ethiopia for the implementation of development plans and the fight against hunger, malnutrition and mitigate the effects of drought through the provision of technical support and humanitarian. The statement pledged to continue its long-term Egypt in this regard within the framework of solidarity with the Government and people of Ethiopia .. معربا عن الأمل فى أن تسهم هذه السياسة وسلسلة المعونات ومن بينها المعونات الغذائية العينية فى تعزيز الأمن الغذائى للشعب الإثيوبى الشقيق. He expressed hope that such a policy and a series of aid including food aid in kind to enhance food security in the Ethiopian People's brother.

جدير بالذكر أن مصر قدمت على مدى العامين الحالى والماضى سلسلة من المعونات الغذائية لصالح المعوذين ضحايا سلسلة الفيضانات والجفاف المتعاقبة فى إثيوبيا من خلال برنامج الأمم المتحدة للغذاء العالمى وجمعية الصليب الأحمر الإثيوبى والوكالة الإثيوبية للاستعداد ومواجهة الكوارث. It is noteworthy that Egypt has over the past two current and past a series of food aid for victims of Almaoven series of successive floods and drought in Ethiopia through the United Nations World Food and Ethiopian Red Cross Society and the IAEA to prepare for the Ethiopian disaster.

 

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<b><big>Ethiopia - Ethiopian New Year food price review</big>
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09/08/08

This year's New Year shopping cost has stayed the same as compared to last month for customary food, such as eggs and poultry, sheep, goats and oxen prices, according to Capital's market assessment.
Capital has learnt that during the past week the price of chickens has remained within the range of 40-50 birr. The price of eggs has slightly gone up to 1.20 birr per egg, slightly up from a couple of months back market price of 1 birr.

Meanwhile, the price of sheep ranges from 300 birr to 600 birr, while goat prices vary between 500 birr and 600 birr. Some estimates have even placed the price of healthy sheep and goats at 1,000 birr. Meanwhile, one kilo of butter is being sold for 65 to 75 birr, slightly down from last Easter's price of 80 birr.

As one of the most celebrated religious holidays, Ethiopians celebrate Enqutatash by feasting on sheep, goats, chickens and eggs.

Some anticipate that Doro Wot, the popular holiday meal of Ethiopia, which is prepared from chicken and eggs, will be part of this New Year's feast in many families.

Traders Capital talked to attribute the price hanging about from a couple of months ago due to the high inflation that occured at the time.

In Ethiopia, holidays take a significant place in the society. Everyone may have a small variation in the way they celebrate them, but most rituals and traditions are basically the same. Among the many holidays celebrated, many of which a great deal of importance is attached to are religious. New Year, the finding of the True Cross, Christmas, Epiphany and Easter are the major ones.

For the celebrations of these holidays, it is a tradition to have some sort of meat prepared with lots of butter. Chicken, sheep, Ox are all slain in large quantities come holiday season. In the days leading up to the holidays, the overall demand for meat and chicken rises very high, which creates a hike in the market price of these animals.

To spend the holidays without at least killing a chicken, no matter how unaffordable the market price may seem, and preparing what has become the signature meal of the country, the Doro Wot is inconceivable to many households, market observer's comment on the irrational consumer behavior of the Ethiopian society.

As of late, many people are heard complaining about the cost of living and the ever increasing price of food items. From the price of a kilo of meat or onions to the price of a kilo of peas, nothing is affordable by many consumers' accounts. The price of a chicken or a sheep is especially lamented during holidays
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[Sally Furniss]

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<big><big>High chicken prices cause discontent in Ethiopia</big></big>

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Chicken is to Ethiopian holidays as turkey is to American Thanksgiving.

But people trying to buy live birds for Thursday's Ethiopian New Year celebrations found the price suddenly out of reach even for the relatively well-off.
International food aid officials say inflation and rising global food prices, combined with the normal holiday demand for chicken, sent the price soaring from about US$5 (?3.60) for a live bird last year to more than $8 (?5.75) in many places.
Tikunesh Berehanu, 53, a house cleaner in the capital, Addis Ababa, said she shelled out the equivalent of about US$7 to celebrate the start of the Ethiopian year 2001, which began at 6 a.m. under the nation's unique, Coptic Christianity-based calendar.
"It was really expensive, but I do not want my kids to be disappointed, as we are always used to celebrating the New Year this way," Berehanu said.
Wede Egegu, a 56-year-old government telecom worker, beat the crowd by buying her chicken a week early, for about US$6 (?4.31). Since then, prices increased to US$8.50 (?6.10), she said.
Some 4.6 million Ethiopians, about 6% of the population, need help obtaining basic foods because of a drought that began this year. The United Nations' World Food Program has sent 197,000 metric tons of food including cereals, pulses, vegetable oil, sugar and salt since the crisis started. - AP


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