Outside a village in the Dasenech district of southern Ethiopia, a queue has formed in front of a narrow bench beneath a tree, where clerks are checking documents and handing out packets of banknotes, each worth about 4,500 Ethiopian birr (£76).
The distribution is being overseen by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian organisation based in the US. Kulo Arikulo, like others in the queue, says the support has come just in time.
