The United States and the World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday that they were suspending “until further notice” their food aid to the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, ravaged by years of conflict, denouncing the diversion of ugly.

“We have made the difficult decision to pause all USAID food assistance to the Tigray region until further notice,” the USAID Administrator said in a statement. for Development and Humanitarian Aid), Samantha Power. And this is because part of this aid has been “diverted and sold on the local market”, she adds.

For its part, the Rome-based World Food Program says it has decided, according to a press release, on a “pause in the distribution of food in Tigray, which will not resume until the WFP can be able to ensure that this aid vital does indeed