Ethiopian Drought Threatens Growth as Cattle Die, Crops Fail
- El Nino adding to farmers and herders' woes in country's east
- Agriculture accounts for 40% of Ethiopia's economic output
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Saado Osman straps two bulging sacks of United Nations wheat to her donkey, one of the few animals the 70-year-old eastern Ethiopian herder has left since the rains stopped.
Like millions of others in the Horn of Africa nation she depended on that precipitation to provide fodder and water for her livestock. Now drought has killed 20 of her cattle and goats, leaving her family of 10 with just four animals.