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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samuel Getachew and Fred Harter

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

Ethiopia Tigray USAID - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

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.

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