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Ethiopia is dealing with its worst drought in decades, thanks to El Nino weather patterns. An estimated 10 million people urgently need food aid. Six million of them are children, whose development may be compromised without sufficient help, Marthe van der Wolf reports for VOA from the Metahara district.
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Government has purchased nearly 1 million metric tons of wheat to get through next few months, is focused on ways to reduce impact of future droughts
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