A AADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The United States will provide an additional $91 million in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to cope with a third straight year of drought, the top U.S. official in charge of assistance said Thursday. The extra funding brings U.S. aid for food and medical care in Ethiopia to $454 million this year, said Mark Green, the new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Another $210 million in U.S. aid has gone to development projects. Green announced the new tranche of aid after he met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The Trump administration has proposed halving Feed the Future’s total budget for agricultural development programs from over $1 billion this year to $500 million next year.

Source: Ethiopian News September 01, 2017 01:52 UTC