Hunger crisis in Ethiopia worsens amid drought

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited a drought-hit region of Ethiopia to help raise awareness of the worsening hunger crisis.

More than 10 million people are short of food amid one of the worst droughts for decades.

Some aid is coming in, but as BBC's correspondent Alastair Leithead has seen in Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia, it is far short of what is needed to address the humanitarian crisis.

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