Posted on 03/13/2025 4:39:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
As a result, a consortium of aid agencies in Tigray has had to stop distributions to the over 1 million people it has been responsible for feeding with U.S.-provided grain. It has no money to pay for fuel, trucks and drivers to distribute existing food stockpiles.
“This is just one warehouse. There are several others across the region,” said Teklewoini Assefa, head of the Relief Society of Tigray, part of the consortium. “This will create malnutrition, disease. If this situation continues, what follows? Death.”
“The impact has been huge,” said Ashenafi Asmelash, executive director of Mums for Mums, which has had two USAID- funded programs terminated.
Management Sciences for Health, another Tigray organization, has halted a project to combat tuberculosis.
This includes counseling and physiotherapy sessions for survivors run by the U.S.-based Center for Victims of Torture.
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The rest of the world is not our responsibility. We have to fix our own problems before we can help others. Where is aid from other countries?
Ah yes, the sad puppy argument for USAID. Sorry, not buying it.
And why are we spending money like this halfway around the globe when we aren’t taking good care of our own veterans? I spent Saturday night in a hotel ballroom at a veteran group fundraiser, contributed strongly myself.
The problem is their own government, not lack of US aid.
There’s another 200 countries that can fund it if they want to...
It sounds like it wasn’t doing any good
Welcome to earth. Good luck!
Its all so sad. No other country on the continent, no other country in the middle east, no other country in Christian Europe wants to help these poor people.
So it falls to the soft hearts elsewhere?
As a Christian, ALL of our brothers and sisters are our responsibility; however, when aid (including food)is sent to these unfortunate people without an ARMED distribution system, local criminals steal the donations and resell them. In addition, local politicians (and probably politicians here) skim money (the take for the “big guy”).
You're doing it wrong.
Where is the aid from their good buds, the ChiComs...
Recent headline, for example...
When able bodied adults rely solely on others for their basic needs, they are either a pet or a slave.
So, we are sending taxpayer dollars to the Mums for Mums in Africa? The only part we play in this freeloader BS is we finance it. Wonderful. America! Land of the Suckers. We’re actually funding a “Center for Victims of Torture?” The only ones being tortured are the U.S. taxpayers.
GMTA - first thing that I thought of!👍😁
Exactly correct. What the report omits (purposely) is the food aid makes in country only to be consumed by corrupt govt. This issue is nearly universal and well understood by our govt and the press.
We have been put in a position that we are the worlds savior. We are not! take care of your own! we have neglected our country and people for far to long and the crooks and criminals have squandered our tax dollars to enrich themselves, its over johnny!
It is fun to read our low-T and lower IQ media’s daily bottom of the barrel anti-Trump trivia. Honestly, is this all they’ve got? Bwahahahaha.
Let the Muslim nations send aid to these dying Muslims.
The government of Ethiopia does not care about them , so why should we as a nation be intervening in Ethiopia’s internal affairs, so these Muslims can eventually go on the war path again in Ethiopia?
By feeding these defeated Muslims we support the world jihadist movement.
Islam has been trying to take over Ethiopia for centuries, and every hundred years or so the Ehtiopian Coptic Christians are forced to slaughter them by the thousands.
Why are we helping these Muslims in Ethiopia?It will lead to war and slaughter.
well, bye
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