An urgent cry for help from one of the world's poorest nations:

"Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country's notorious famine," Reuters writes.

As the BBC says, "hunger stalks Ethiopia once again."

The Associated Press notes that "the crisis stems from a drought that has affected much of the Horn of Africa, including Kenya and Somalia."

Oxfam International says a "radical shake-up" of the aid system is needed to break Ethiopia's "cycle of hunger."