The UN World Food Programme hopes to resume some food aid distribution in Ethiopia as soon as next month once it has received greater control over how beneficiaries are selected, a senior WFP official said on Monday.
It paused food aid to the northern Tigray region in May and then to all of Ethiopia this month in response to widespread theft of donations. In both cases, its announcements came just after the United States said it was doing the same.
“We would want to have a much more direct involvement ourselves as WFP and our partner non-governmental organisations in the process of selecting beneficiaries,” Guarnieri told Reuters. Assistance in Tigray and to refugee camps could resume by the second half of July after the WFP received positive feedback from the relevant authorities, Guarnieri said, adding she hoped that would spur a swift resumption of distributions more widely.
Neither WFP nor the US Agency for International Development have said who benefited from the thefts, but an internal briefing by a group of foreign donors said USAID believed some food has gone to Ethiopian military units.
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