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AP: ‘We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region

Post by Selam/ » 14 Mar 2025, 07:35

‘We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region

MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — As a displaced person in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, 76-year-old Haile Tsege is no stranger to hunger.

During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, Ethiopian government restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then in 2023, U.S. and U.N. aid distributions of grain were halted for months over a corruption scandal.

Now the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has again halted food deliveries to a sprawling camp of over 20,000 people outside Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele.

“We will just die in silence,” said Tsege, one of the 2.4 million people in Tigray who depend on humanitarian grain, most of it provided by the U.S...

https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-tig ... 1dd06421d7

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Re: AP: ‘We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region

Post by Jaegol » 14 Mar 2025, 07:42

This agames should march to Addis or die trying, rather than die in starvation

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