Weakened by several days without food, she had gone to a hospital in Tigray, a region of Ethiopia that has been suffering from famine for over two years. And the situation is likely to get worse after the decisions in May by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the US government aid agency (USAID) to suspend their food aid to Tigray because of misappropriations. The authorities have denied these allegations, accusing the Tigray rebel authorities of requisitioning food aid for their war effort. Gaym Gebreselassie, his wife and two children aged six and two, are also dependent on food aid, the result of several months' unpaid wages. For the surgeon, the suspension of food aid "is a death sentence".

Source: Ethiopian News June 23, 2023 13:24 UTC