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Article: Developing Famine Threatens Ethiopia.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 29, 2003
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By Charles A. Radin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 29--LEKU, Ethiopia--By the time his father carried him into the therapeutic feeding center here, 5-year-old Samuel Sebala was severely malnourished by every standard there is for evaluating famine-stricken children.
His once-black hair was light and falling out. His wide-eyed stare was unfocused, his weight a fraction of what it should have been for a child his height. His face and feet were swollen.
He made no sound as his frail body was measured and probed, just shivered horribly in the cool, damp, rainy-season morning when his tattered clothes were removed ...