“We are always hungry.”The drought is one of the worst in recent memory, but it is just the latest crisis to hit Tigray. Across Ethiopia, one in six of the 120 million population need food aid because of drought, conflict and rising inflation. “We would not be seeing this level of need without the suspension.”Aid agencies resumed food aid deliveries in December after reforms were put in place to stop theft. These included putting GPS trackers on food trucks and removing Ethiopian officials from the distribution of humanitarian grain. In Tigray, just 14% of people targeted by NGOs for food aid last month had received any by 21 January.

Source: Ethiopian News February 09, 2024 14:31 UTC