FAO APPROVES EMERGENCY FOOD AID FOR ETHIOPIA

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture
  Organization, FAO, said it approved emergency food aid worth
  more than 14.3 mln dlrs for drought victims in Ethiopia.
      The aid will include 30,000 tonnes of wheat and 1,200
  tonnes of vegetable oil for farmers in the Wollo and Illubabor
  regions.
      FAO said it has also approved more than 1.4 mln dlrs of
  food aid for 8,000 families in Sri Lanka. In addition, 583,225
  dlrs of aid will be made available to Malawi to feed 96,700
  people displaced from Mozambique and a further 340,200 dlrs for
  cyclone victims in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
  

