US 一時停止するs all food 援助(する) for millions in Ethiopia after 調査 finds '普及した' 窃盗

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The 部隊d 明言する/公表するs 機関 for International 開発 said Thursday it has 一時停止するd all food 援助(する) to Ethiopia, Africa's second most-populous country, after an 内部の 調査 設立する 寄付するd food ーするつもりであるd for millions of hungry people there was 存在 コースを変えるd on a "普及した" 規模.

While the 機関's 声明 did not say who was 責任がある the 窃盗, 機関 長,率いる Samantha 力/強力にする, in 要点説明 the 上院 Foreign Relations 委員会 earlier this spring on 初期の 発見s of 大規模な 窃盗 of food 援助(する) in Ethiopia's northern Tigray 地域, said the 窃盗 appeared to "伴う/関わる collusion between parties on both 味方するs" in a 政府 衝突 with 対抗者s there.

力/強力にする at the time called her 機関's 延期する in (悪事,秘密などを)発見するing the "普及した and 連係させた" 窃盗 of 援助(する) there "a systemic 失敗" by her 機関.

The U.S. is the biggest 選び出す/独身 寄贈者 to Ethiopia, 供給するing $1.8 billion in 人道的な 援助, 含むing food 援助(する), in the 2022 会計年度. In total, 20 million people across Ethiopia rely on 援助(する) because of 衝突 and 干ばつ, out of a total 全住民 of about 120 million.

A USAID 公式の/役人, speaking on 条件 of anonymity given the 現在進行中の 調査, said the U.S. 開発 機関 was still 供給するing other 援助 in Ethiopia, 含むing feedings for 栄養失調の children, にもかかわらず the 中断 of 配達/演説/出産 of food 援助(する).

"Our 意向 is to すぐに 再開する food 援助 once we are c onfident in the 正直さ of 配達/演説/出産 systems to get 援助 to its ーするつもりであるd 受取人s," the 機関 said in a 声明.

An 内部の 覚え書き 用意が出来ている by a group of 人道的な 寄贈者s and seen by The Associated 圧力(をかける) also pointed to the 関与 of Ethiopia´s 連邦の 政府 in the 転換 of food 援助(する).

"The 計画/陰謀 appears to be orchestrated by 連邦の and 地域の 政府 of Ethiopia (独立の)存在s, with 軍の 部隊s across the country benefitting from 人道的な 援助," said the 文書 from the 人道的な and Resilience 寄贈者 Group, which 含むs 二国間の/相互の and 多国間の partners.

In a 共同の 声明 with USAID, Ethiopia's 外務 省 spoke of "深く,強烈に 関心ing 発覚s" and said it was 調査/捜査するing with the U.S. "so that the 悪党/犯人s of such 転換 are held to account." It committed to 改革(する)s to 保護(する)/緊急輸入制限 未来 援助(する) from 窃盗.

The 文書 said USAID staff members had 開始する,打ち上げるd 査察 visits of 63 flour mills in seven of Ethiopia´s nine 地域s since March. They 証言,証人/目撃するd a "重要な 転換 of USAID-基金d 人道的な food 商品/必需品s" と一緒に food 寄付するd by フラン, Japan and ウクライナ共和国, によれば the 寄贈者 報告(する)/憶測.

The USAID 告示 comes after both USAID and the 国際連合 World Food Program last month said they had 一時停止するd 援助(する) to Ethiopia's northern Tigray 地域 while they 調査/捜査するd 主張s of food 援助(する) 窃盗, which were first 報告(する)/憶測d by the AP in April.

The Tigray 地域 was the 中心 of a 破滅的な two-yea r 衝突 that ended in November and left 5.4 million of the 全住民 of 6 million relying on 人道的な help.

A USAID 文書 from May 3 said its 捜査官/調査官s discovered 2,000 metric トンs of USAID-branded wheat - enough to 料金d 134,000 people for a month - for sale in a market in the Tigray town of Shire in March. The 捜査官/調査官s also 設立する USAID 穀物 for sale どこかよそで in the 地域, the 文書 said.

With food 援助(する) 一時停止するd in the 地域, doctors in Tigray have 報告(する)/憶測d an alarming rise in hunger. Child 栄養不良 事例/患者s rose by 28% from March to April at the 地域´s 旗艦 Ayder Hospital in Mekelle, the 地方の 資本/首都, while at Axum Hospital they rose by 96% over the same period, によれば admissions data reviewed by the AP.

Simret Niguse, a pediatrician at Ayder, said seven children died from 激烈な/緊急の 栄養不良 at the hospital last month. They 含むd a 6-month-old whose mother could not produce milk "予定 to hunger," she said.

The 事実上の/代理 U.S. 外交官/大使 to Ethiopia, Tracey Ann Jacobson, and マイク 大打撃を与える, the U.S. special (外交)使節/代表 to the Horn of Africa, visited Tigray this week. The 地域´s 暫定的な 大統領,/社長, Getachew Reda, said he discussed 主張s of 援助(する) 転換 with them.

証言するing to 上院議員s about the 調査 in late April, 力/強力にする said fighting had meant that USAID´s 災害 返答 team was then unable to 伸び(る) 接近 to the 地域, which 否定するd the 機関 the oversight it would have had on scene, she said.

"We know we 借りがある you...not only accounting for what has happened but also some 会・原則 of 付加 保護(する)/緊急輸入制限s," 力/強力にする told 上院議員s.

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Ellen Knickmeyer 与える/捧げるd from Washington.

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