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Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say (apnews.com)
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Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The answer to your question is in the second paragraph of the article:

The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray in March after the discovery of a scheme to steal donated wheat intended for needy people. They extended the pause to the rest of Ethiopia in early June, affecting 20 million people in need, or about one-sixth of the country’s population.