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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Cara Anna

Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say

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Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say.

The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray in March after the discovery of a scheme to steal donated wheat intended for needy people. They extended the pause to the rest of Ethiopia in early June, affecting 20 million people in need, or about one-sixth of the country's population.

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