Caritas Internationalis joins calls of various religious leaders in Ethiopia to demand that deliveries of food aid be resumed in the country's Tigray region, where fighting has caused a humanitarian disaster. On their website, Caritas, along with numerous religious leaders and aid agencies, calls for US Agency for International Development (USAID) and World Food Programme (WFP) to “resume life-saving food distribution immediately”. The statement explains that the food aid was suspended on 30 March 2023 in the Tigray region after “widespread and systemic” diversion of large amounts of food meant for hungry people was discovered. Theft and corruption in food aid must not be tolerated, and the people responsible should be held to account. In a joint letter addressed to the Government of Ethiopia, USAID and the WFP, Cardinal Berhaneyesus, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia, and Rev.

Source: Ethiopian News July 05, 2023 11:17 UTC