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UN Suspends Humanitarian Aid to Ethiopia Due to Food Misappropriation

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday that it was temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia due to an... 09.06.2023, Sputnik Africa

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"While we will temporarily halt food aid assistance in Ethiopia, nutrition assistance to children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, school meals programs, and activities for building the resilience of farmers and pastoralists will continue uninterrupted," the statement said.The WFP vowed to put together a comprehensive action plan that would strengthen food safeguards and controls in Ethiopia, use technology to identify those most in need, reinforce food tracking all the way to beneficiary families and improve the reporting of violations.The move comes on the heels of USAID's announcement on Thursday that it was suspending aid in Ethiopia after detecting food misappropriation.Last month, aid shipments to Ethiopia's Tigray region were put on hold by the WFP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) amid an ongoing internal examination by local authorities into the misappropriation of food that was designated for people in need.

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UN Suspends Humanitarian Aid to Ethiopia Due to Food Misappropriation

15:42 09.06.2023

© AP PhotoA worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022.

A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 09.06.2023

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday that it was temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia due to an investigation into food aid diversion.

The aid will resume once the agency is able to "ensure that food reaches the people who need it the most."

Sacks of wheat are unloaded at a food distribution site in the town of Adi Mehameday, in the western Tigray region of Ethiopia, Saturday, May 28, 2022. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 04.05.2023

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UN Agency, USAID Suspend Food Deliveries to Tigray Citing Aid Theft

4 May 2023, 16:55

The WFP vowed to put together a comprehensive action plan that would strengthen food safeguards and controls in Ethiopia, use technology to identify those most in need, reinforce food tracking all the way to beneficiary families and improve the reporting of violations.

The move comes on the heels of USAID's announcement on Thursday that it was suspending aid in Ethiopia after detecting food misappropriation.

Last month, aid shipments to Ethiopia's Tigray region were put on hold by the WFP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) amid an ongoing internal examination by local authorities into the misappropriation of food that was designated for people in need.