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Your support makes all the difference.Ethiopia faces a famine dwarfing the disaster that hit the country in the 1980s, the country's prime minister warned today.
Meles Zenawi called for urgent international action to avoid a major human catastrophe. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that up to 15 million people were at risk
"The disaster we had in 84-85, the number involved was roughly a third to one half of the number of people involved now.
"So if that was a nightmare, this will be too ghastly to contemplate," he said.
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