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An Ethiopian official has strongly rejected accusations that the government deliberately excludes opposition supporters from its food safety net programme.

"We basically have a poverty management system from the federal government, a safety net programme that is not getting people out of poverty," he said.

More than 45,000 public projects are carried out each year by the productive safety net programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia, which involves the local community in building vital public services and pays for this labour through cash and food.

Last year, Human Rights Watch issued a highly critical report of the Ethiopian government, accusing it of excluding opposition supporters from the safety net programme, thereby restricting food aid to particular individuals.

Tadesse Bekele, deputy head of food security and early warning systems, insisted that the productive safety net programme (PSNP), which provides food and cash to vulnerable families for work on public projects, worked for the benefit of all Ethiopians regardless of their political affiliations.

The US and international development officials generally credit the Meles government for having put in place an early warning system and the safety net programme, which seem to have served the country well in this current drought, the worst in 60 years in parts of east Africa, and which has hit neighbouring Somalia particularly hard.

On Wednesday, John Boehner, the speaker of the House, did at least signal a degree of suppleness, noting for the first time that some revenue increases may be tolerable to his party, though signalling that in return Mr Obama would have to swallow cuts in funding for social safety net programmes.

Other programmes such as productive safety net programmes, and sustainable land management project were deploying their resources aiming to reverse the degraded landscape in the region.

The majority of people in Turkana live below the absolute poverty line (an estimated 87.5% of the population) with more than 50% heavily relying on food aid and safety net programmes from year to year.

Many countries experienced difficulties in implementing safety net programmes effectively.

Safety net programmes have improved the food security and nutritional status of more than 114000 families.