ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The lead U.S. development agency plans to restart food aid deliveries for millions of people across Ethiopia in December, five months after it took the extraordinary step of halting its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials.
U.S. Agency for International Development officials on Wednesday described wide-ranging new reforms in handling of food aid to the East African country to try to prevent a repeat of what they have said may have been the largest theft of food aid in history.
This is great news. Those sanctions cost thousands of lives, and not just in Tigray. Hopefully increased USAID presence will hinder the Abiy government from interfering with it in future.
They should investigate international aid to Palestinians in Gaza and West bank as well.
Article is about the US. Not sure aid to Gaza is their priority since they are siding with Israel.
From AP news article published in 2021:
The U.S. has spent at least $5.5 million in Gaza this year on cash assistance and health care, in addition to contributing $90 million to UNRWA operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Imagine how much good things can be done with such funds, if it isn’t used for strengthening military capabilities of Hamas. Infra projects, development of industry and farming and what not. Some will say “but it’s a tiny piece of land with no resources” - well we could see IT industry rise there, as it doesn’t need much more than computers and internet access. Did this happen? Open the news to see.
@burchalka the humanitarian aid situation there is difficult as well.
However, there are dozens of stories about Gaza all over the fediverse. I don’t see why we have to turn this Ethiopia story into yet another one.
What’s wrong with actually discussing the situation in Ethiopia? In Tigray, in Oromia?
The suspension has affected 20 million Ethiopians.
Agree, sorry for derailing the thread
