<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d9f77bb-b90f-4b98-98ff-521e6ea969ca/EC4DFC61-8CFA-4E26-849A-E56CA97F2276/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation" href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation" style="font-size: 11px;">news.sky.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><H2>Oxfam has made an urgent appeal for more aid to help millions of Ethiopians on the brink of starvation.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.sky.com/img/88E2664E-A2AE-4933-99F2-2C671BC3AA56" alt="Ethiopian boy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>The call comes as the Ethiopian government prepares to announce that the number of people in need of emergency assistance has leapt from 4.6 million to 6.4 million since June.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>Oxfam called on rich countries to redouble the aid effort to avert disaster.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>According to the UN, there is a £150m funding shortfall for the next six months.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>While the numbers in need of help have risen, not enough food is reaching the country and monthly cereal rations have been cut by a third.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>Another 7.2 million <A href="http://indepth.news.sky.com/InDepth/topic/Ethiopia"><B>Ethiopians</B></A> already receive cash or food aid each year under the government's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>Oxfam's country director Waleed Rauf said: "Today's figures, terrible as they are, show only half the picture.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oxfam-Ethiopians-On-Brink-Of-Starvation/Article/200810215117478?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15117478_Oxfam%3A_Ethiopians_On_Brink_Of_Starvation"><P>"Over 13.5 million Ethiopians are in need of aid in order to survive."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EC4DFC61-8CFA-4E26-849A-E56CA97F2276/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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