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UN 'runs out of aid for Ethiopia'
three months before the next harvest.
The UN World Food Programme says breast-feeding mothers, children
and refugees will be among those worst hit.
It warns after it hands out final rations this month there will be no
further deliveries until September or October.
The agency says it has no option but to cut back on the food they
provide, which has already been cut by a third since July 2008.
"We have a small refugee population here and their ration is being cut by
half beginning this month. We run out of food and people will be very
hungry," WFP's Barry Came told the BBC.
BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says in the jargon of the aid agencies,
the food pipeline has ruptured.
The port of Djibouti is full to overflowing and the Ethiopian government
has prioritised the delivery of fertiliser, to try to increase the next
harvest.
But even when the grain gets through the WFP says there is an acute
shortage of trucks, with the Ethiopian authorities preventing the agency
from bringing in its own fleet from Sudan.
The UN says the Ethiopian authorities have exacerbated the situation by
refusing it permission to use a fleet of trucks to transport the grain from
Djibouti.
Courtesy
- 16 June, 2009 (BBC) - The UN has
warned that it has run out of food
to provide for nine million
Ethiopians who rely on its
assistance.
A UN spokesman told the BBC the
port of Djibouti was seriously
congested and there was little
prospect of supplies arriving for the
next five months.
Following a border war, Eritrea
denied Ethiopia access to its ports,
so the landlocked country relies on
Djibouti.
three months before the next harvest.
The UN World Food Programme says breast-feeding mothers, children
and refugees will be among those worst hit.
It warns after it hands out final rations this month there will be no
further deliveries until September or October.
The agency says it has no option but to cut back on the food they
provide, which has already been cut by a third since July 2008.
"We have a small refugee population here and their ration is being cut by
half beginning this month. We run out of food and people will be very
hungry," WFP's Barry Came told the BBC.
BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says in the jargon of the aid agencies,
the food pipeline has ruptured.
The port of Djibouti is full to overflowing and the Ethiopian government
has prioritised the delivery of fertiliser, to try to increase the next
harvest.
But even when the grain gets through the WFP says there is an acute
shortage of trucks, with the Ethiopian authorities preventing the agency
from bringing in its own fleet from Sudan.
The UN says the Ethiopian authorities have exacerbated the situation by
refusing it permission to use a fleet of trucks to transport the grain from
Djibouti.
Courtesy
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