Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.
I wish we could donate directly to the people in need rather than to the corrupt government or the large humanitarian organisations willing to play along with that corruption.
These governments stopped sending food aid because of local corruption, not their own corruption. The food was being stolen and sold for profit instead of going to those who are starving.
Worth noting the US had other sanctions against Ethiopia in place but is easing some non-food restrictions.
It’s been very hard in the Tigray situation because the national government isn’t all that invested in aid to Tigray and at one point Ethiopian and Eritrean forces were actively stopping it.
Yup, that’s what I meant (I guess I wasn’t clear which government I was talking about, and it was the Ethiopian one, though to be fair, it’s all governments involved that are to blame, since none of them are actually acting to stop the violence and suffering, only to apply ban-aid solutions to it, at best, or find ways to make money from the situation at worst).
If you’re talking about a boots on the ground peacekeeping intervention in the Ethiopian war and its aftermath, I agree with you but I don’t think the UN would get much support for that even now.
The US has been sanctioning the Ethiopian government over its human rights abuses in Tigray.
Halting food aid to the rest of Ethiopia has been one of the measures taken in response to aid being diverted, and as we can see it seems to have increased deaths.