US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia’s war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the U.S. Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign aid.

They say they have no money to pay for fuel, trucks and drivers to distribute existing stockpiles because the USAID payment system isn’t working while the agency is dismantled.

Gebrehiwot Gebrezgiabher, Tigray Disaster Risk Management…