The United States will give $91 million in food aid to Ethiopia in an effort to avert famine in the southeast of the country, Reuters reports. The aid will “provide additional emergency food assistance and vital medical care" U.S. aid chief Mark Green said after meeting with the country’s prime minister. Ethiopia has faced severe droughts before: Once in the eighties and again in 2011. Since 2000, chef and co-founder of Red Rooster Marcus Samuelsson, who is Ethiopian, has served as a UNICEF ambassador. As Starmach observes in one of the videos, “For them, food means life.”

Source: Ethiopian News August 31, 2017 16:38 UTC