EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopia’s dictatorship needs stop buying weapons and use the money to buy food. The current official military budget is $400 million. This doesn’t include the secret budget that is allocated to the intelligence services and the death squads.
(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.
[This is not true. BBC needs to get its facts straight. The Government of Eritrea had offered free access to Assab port for donated food to Ethiopia. It was the Meles regime that has declined the offer. BBC needs to also report that tonnes of donated food intended for Ethiopia are currently rotting in the Djibouti port because the Meles tribal junta is unwilling and unable to provide transportation, although the excuse they give is port congestion, according to a U.N. report. Read here.]
Correspondents say this time of year is known as “the hunger season”, 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 prioritized the delivery of fertilizer [to be distributed to poor farmers at high profit margin by Woyanne-owned companies], 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.
14 thoughts on “United Nations runs out of aid for Ethiopia”
We have said time and again that we cannot depend on food air for ever. It is time to stop bigging and depend on our self. Self reliance and food security should be our Moto !
I love that guy Isaias Afeworki when he turned the food aid down; every one was blamming him for that but it is better to turn it down your self than than the donors to tell you
” sorry but we don’t have any more food for you ”
Ethiopia is rich with resources but poor with leaders.
Let’s roll our sleves and build dams !
Please read a book by the name ” Dead Aid “
hi elias,
Our military budget is 4 billion not 4oo million.
the two organization UN & BBC are doing their best to destroy the image of Africa as usual
Hi Meles/Abebe (#1),
Nice joke. BTW: $400 billion is in Birr = $400 M. Dollar.
Does the budget includes your daughter’s AK-47 gun and high security guard accompany?
Every thing is clear for us now, no more mislead by woyane and likes
Elias, thanks you for correcting the wrong information from BBC. As we know and also heard from PIA it is the woyane regime that has refused to use Assab.
Abbay,
Did UN and BBC destroy the image of Ghana or Zambia? Not at all! Our image is destroyed by cannibals like Meles who slaughter their own people using various means.
Abbay,
Did UN and BBC destroy the image of Ghana or Zambia? Not at all! Our image is destroyed by cannibals like Meles who slaughter their own people using various means.
The first poster,
u need to read it carefully. It is 400 million dollar that Elias wrote which is equivalent to 4 Billion Eth birr.
You may not be good in maths lol
BBC have been the enemy of the Ethiopian people by distorting
Information and got side with the fascist Woyane.
But time will come for all peace lovers.
Thank you Elias.
True to its ugly colors, the BBC is distorting facts by stating point blank that “Eritrea denied Ethiopia access to the sea”! Rubbish! As Elias stated, the BBC knows darn well that it is the Weyane mafias that boycotted the use of the Eritrean ports in a vain attempt to “subjugate” Eritrea.
privatise land! st&pid!
this is a pretext for tplf to claim ASSAB
Some people believe the image of the country is destroyed by the foreign press. An ethnic based regime has excelled in begging for handout, while the leadership is hoarding and stashing it away in foreign banks while they also lining their pockets at the expense of the need of the country. What is there to be surprised. The country is a failed state, which is ready to implode due to ethnic conflict that was set up by this regime for the benefit of divide and rule.
Thanks to the Weyanne and their dedicated supporters for the ill will that is facing the country
The truth of the matter is the Meles regime don’t want Ethiopians to be productive.Weyane sees the process of production as a threat to it’s mafia operations.