Ethiopia Leader Calls for More Foreign Food Aid Amid Drought

Ethiopia's leader on Thursday urged the international community to donate more toward emergency food aid for millions of people amid a drought. Ethiopia "should not be neglected by any means despite all the other crises that are going on elsewhere in the world,'' Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn told The Associated Press in an interview. "My country deserves more support because we are also sheltering some 750,000 refugees from neighboring countries that...

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