Using the Ethiopian government as a partner, a spokesperson for USAID claimed that a "widespread and coordinated campaign is diverting food assistance from the people of Ethiopia." The spokesperson for USAID stated that once the organisation was confident in the reliability of the system, food assistance would resume. A month ago, USAID and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) already stopped providing food aid to the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in response to information that significant amounts of that aid were being misdirected. USAID provided Ethiopia with nearly $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid during the 2022 fiscal year, the majority of it in the form of food aid. Due to the Tigrayan civil war and the worst drought in decades in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia's food crisis has worsened recently.

Source: Ethiopian News June 09, 2023 06:36 UTC