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Sat 11 Nov 2002A people forced to eat boiled weeds face famine as crops fail in droughtETHIOPIA: Some 14 million people are facing food shortages in east Africa. Anthony Mitchell reports from West Haraghe in Ethiopia on how people are copingA small tear rolls down from the eye of three-year-old Nasraden Aman - one of the few indications that he is still alive.