Ethiopia government under fire for slow response to worst drought in 50 years

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Just over 430,000 children arebelieved to be suffering from acute malnutrition in Ethiopia.Many children suffer from symptoms of diarrhea and feveras famine and a drought grip the country's eastern rim.

Drought conditions have forced about 10 million people in Ethiopia to rely on emergency food aid provided by the government and international aid agencies.

The government isbeing criticized for not acting quickly enough and many people are askingwhy after devastating famines in past decades this is happening again.

Guests in this segment:

• Margaret Evans,CBC's foreign correspondent who just returned from Ethiopia.
• Raymond Gilpin, academic dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University,an institution funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

AlJazeera,OmarMohammed speaks to Ethiopian farmers

This segment was produced by The Current's Liz Hoath, Josh Bloch and Pacinthe Mattar.