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Mitchell: 'Zero tolerance' for aid corruption

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British aid is feeding more than 2.4 million people in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, according to new government figures.

Correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports from Adada in eastern Ethiopia near the border of Somalia, where three months after famine was declared, 13m people are now caught up in the effects of the drought.

And International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell discusses what Britain is doing to ensure aid money does not end up in the wrong hands.


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