Famine in Ethiopia:
Lautze said too much emphasis has been placed on food, at the expense of key areas such as health, agriculture and water, which in turn had exacerbated the crisis.
�We have a food crisis leading to destitution and we have a health crisis that is leading to emergency mortality � a very alarming situation,� she said.
The key to tackling the emergency, she stressed, was to look at the livelihoods of the impoverished people in the country.
�The donors have come though on this crisis,� Lautze added. �We have all the resources that we thought we would need, and yet we have crises that we are unable to control."
IRIN, a UN humanitarian information unit
