Ethiopia’s Tigray probes food aid theft as WFP halts operations
Following a two-year conflict between Ethiopian government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, millions of people in Tigray experience food shortages.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
Following the discovery that emergency aid had been stolen, the World Food Programme and USAid have suspended food deliveries in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia.
Food shipments, according to USAid Administrator Samantha Power, had been misdirected and sold on the neighborhood market.
When it was certain that the intended population, which is experiencing famine, would receive the packages, she said, delivery would resume.
Getachew Reda, the interim president of Tigray, has announced the formation of a task group to combat aid theft.
He urged humanitarian organizations to keep providing relief to the most in need.
