A woman has her arm measured during a food distribution organized by the World Food Program in Adlale, Ethiopia, in April 2022. Because on its own, this fraud could represent the largest diversion of food aid ever seen in Africa, or even in the world. On June 9, this scandal prompted Usaid and the World Food Program (WFP) to make the difficult choice to completely suspend the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia. “Our decision to cut off food aid to Ethiopia was heartbreaking and a measure of last resort, due to the extreme scale and coordination of food aid diversions identified in the country. The Disaster Risk Management Commission has recorded 728 hunger-related deaths in three areas of the region since the suspension of food aid.

Source: Ethiopian News July 07, 2023 17:49 UTC