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IFRC launches appeal for 40,000 "at extreme risk" in South Wello

    NAIROBI
    Meanwhile, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on Tuesday launched an appeal for Ethiopian drought victims, targeting 40,000 people - half of them children - at extreme risk in two heavily belg-dependent woredas (districts) of South Wello in the northern highlands. The Federation aims to raise 870,000 Swiss francs to provide supplementary food assistance to children under five, pregnant and lactating women, the elderly and the handicapped over a six-month period. The Federation appeal is in support of the Ethiopian Red Cross which intends to provide the 40,000 people with 2kg each of fortified cereal per month.

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