Ethiopia is facing a huge wave of refugees from South Sudan, where the spectre of famine threatens to heap further misery on a people already rocked by civil war, the UN’s food aid agency warned on Wednesday.
“The numbers are increasing exponentially in a very short period of time,” said Abdou Dieng, head of the World Food Programme’s Ethiopia operations.
There are already around 147 000 South Sudanese refugees in camps in neighbouring Ethiopia, and at least 1 500 more are crossing the border every week.
“The situation is not improving in South Sudan, so we expect that they will continue to come. If there is a famine in South Sudan, as many people think there will be, that will push more people to come into Ethiopia,” he told reporters…
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