The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia’s Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister’s recent death in childbirth. And now, a lack of food stemming from the region’s drought has left the youngest of the children she is raising malnourished. But months after the end of the conflict, the U.N. and the U.S. halted food aid for Tigray because of a massive scheme by Ethiopian officials to steal humanitarian grain. Food deliveries to Tigray in the second half of last year, but only a small fraction of needy people in Tigray are receiving food aid, humanitarian workers say. The region’s drought has meant that some areas that usually get about 60 days of rain during the rainy season have seen only a few.

Source: Ethiopian News March 10, 2024 16:45 UTC