Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations food agency to call for an emergency cash injection of $US50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country's east, a consequence of an El Nino weather pattern that has caused significant declines in rain in some parts of the world and floods in others. The Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says the drought had decimated Ethiopian livestock and threatened food supplies for 10.2 million people

Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations food agency to call for an emergency cash injection of $US50 million to help the country overcome the crisis.

Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country's east, a consequence of an El Nino weather pattern that has caused significant declines in rain in some parts of the world and floods in others.

The Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says the drought had decimated Ethiopian livestock and threatened food supplies for 10.2 million people.

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