UN test-starts food aid to Ethiopia after suspension

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Tuesday August 08, 2023 - 19:54:44 in Latest News by Horn Observer Contributor
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    UN test-starts food aid to Ethiopia after suspension

    ADDIS ABABA (HORN OBSERVER) After two months the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stopped sending its food aid to Ethiopia, it has now resumed releasing critical food aid to the country.

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The Tigray region is emerging from a brutal civil war (archive photo from 2022)Image caption: The Tigray region is emerging from a brutal civil war. | PHOTO/ AFP File.
ADDIS ABABA (HORN OBSERVER) After two months the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stopped sending its food aid to Ethiopia, it has now resumed releasing critical food aid to the country.

WFP initially said it had to stop delivering food over concerns donations were being diverted from those in need.

WFP has now said it has decided to resume supplies in one region.

Tigray, in the north of the country, is in dire need after a two-year civil war, which ended last November, that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.

Incremental supplies have begun in Tigray under a new monitoring process, the WFP said on Tuesday, first with "15kg pre-packed bags of wheat to just over 100,000 peopleā€.

Millions of people across the country are at a risk of severe food shortage.

USAid, which also cut food supplies to Ethiopia around the same time as WFP, told journalists on Tuesday that it had no plans to resume operations.





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