{"id":115963,"date":"2023-08-09T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wfp-begins-test-distribution-of-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:35:11","slug":"wfp-begins-test-distribution-of-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wfp-begins-test-distribution-of-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP begins \u2018test distribution\u2019 of food aid to Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115963\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe World Food Programme has started distributing food aid in Ethiopia\u2019s war-scarred Tigray region, in a test for new monitoring measures after halting assistance over the diversion of supplies, the United Nations agency said on Tuesday. WFP and US aid agency USAID halted food aid to Africa\u2019s second most populous country in June after discovering that supplies were not reaching those in need, raising fears that the decision would leave millions of Ethiopians in desperate straits.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the UN food agency said it had \u201cstarted distributing 15-kilogramme (33-pound) pre-packed bags of wheat to just over 100,000 people\u201d as part of a pilot project with improved monitoring mechanisms. \u201cOn July 31, the World Food Programme started testing and verifying enhanced controls and measures for delivering food assistance in four districts of Tigray,\u201d it said in a message to AFP. The new measures in the \u201ctest distributions\u201d include the tracking of supplies and the digital registration of recipients to prevent aid from falling into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Ethiopians are facing severe food shortages following a brutal two-year war in Tigray as well as a punishing drought in the Somali region that has also struck Somalia and parts of Kenya. The Amhara region, which neighbours Tigray, has also witnessed clashes between a local militia and the national army in recent weeks, affecting humanitarian operations there, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWFP also plans to begin registering populations and rolling out the new enhanced control measures for targeted, vulnerable people in Amhara, Afar and Somali regions, as well as other parts of Tigray region, as soon as possible,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for USAID, the US government\u2019s main international aid agency, told AFP that \u201cat this time, US food assistance in Ethiopia remains paused\u201d. \u201cWe are committed to resuming food assistance as quickly as possible once we can be confident our assistance is reaching the most vulnerable that it is intended for.\u201d Prior to the nationwide suspension, WFP and USAID said in May that they would freeze food aid to Tigray after discovering that shipments were being diverted to local markets. Neither agency has identified those responsible for taking the aid and reselling it. Tigray suffered from dire shortages of food, fuel, cash and medicines during the two-year conflict between forces loyal to the federal government and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the UN\u2019s humanitarian agency OCHA said: \u201cIn Tigray, the pause in food aid is lead ing to increased number of people resorting to negative coping mechanisms, including skipping meals\u2026 begging, child labour, transactional sex.\u201d\u00a0 The war ended with a peace deal signed last November, and some basic services have resumed to the region of six million people. But media access remains restricted and it is impossible to independently verify the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/wfp-begins-test-distribution-of-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/wfp-begins-test-distribution-of-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray\/\">WFP begins \u2018test distribution\u2019 of food aid to Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,10981,3295,10982,3312,3454],"class_list":["post-115963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-distribution","tag-ethiopia","tag-food-aid","tag-test","tag-wfp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}