Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say (apnews.com)

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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.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I did mean that, but in my mind was going even further back, because of course this crisis isn't the first in the region and it won't be the last, especially as long as the west continue to withhold support (or only provide it to the bodies they know will not distribute it fairly, which I don't doubt they knew was the case long before they decided to sanction).

The more you look in to these things, the worse it gets really.

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