UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies
Food aid to Ethiopia has been suspended after the discovery that humanitarian supplies meant for people in need were being stolen.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that it is halting food assistance while it rolled out “enhanced safeguards and controls that will ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches targeted, vulnerable people”. It comes a day after the US Agency for International Development (USAid) said it was doing the same, after a “countrywide review” uncovered “a widespread and coordinated campaign” that was diverting food assistance from Ethiopian people.
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