ETHIOPIA: Crisis looms in Somali region

Children displaced by years of drought are dying every day from malnutrition and disease in a situation that is likely to get worse unless urgent action is taken, a UNICEF press statement released on Tuesday in Addis Ababa said. "Mortality rates among IDP [internally displaced people] children in Ethiopia's Somali region are alarming. Several children are dying from malnutrition and related diseases every day, the statement quotes UNICEF nutritionist Yvonne Grellety as saying.