China & the African Drought: Part 2 - The Ali's Story

In the second in a series of videos on the African food crisis, D J Clark meets a family struggling to survive in Ethiopia's worst hit area. The horn of Africa has suffered it's worst drought in sixty years and although the seasonal rains are now starting to arrive, in Ethiopia, 4.5 million people are still reliant on direct food aid to survive according to the UN. Last week the first of a series of Chinese food shipments arrived in Ethiopia to help the local government deal with a shortfall of food aid.