ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The United States will provide an additional $91 million in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to cope with a third straight year of drought, the top U.S. official in charge of assistance said Thursday.
The extra funding brings U.S. aid for food and medical care in Ethiopia to $454 million this year, said Mark Green, the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Another $210 million in U.S. aid has gone to development projects.
Green announced the additional aid after he met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. In a statement he read to reporters, Green said he had also urged the Ethiopian leader to take “concrete steps to create political space for all voices to be heard and to uphold constitutional and guaranteed rights.”
In August, Ethiopia lifted a 10-month state of emergency imposed in the wake of deadly clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters alleging rights abuses and political cronyism.
“What I said to him is, we look at what countries need around the world to strengthen their ability to deliver for their people,” Green told reporters later.
Featured image courtesy of DVIDS.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The United States will provide an additional $91 million in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to cope with a third straight year of drought, the top U.S. official in charge of assistance said Thursday.
The extra funding brings U.S. aid for food and medical care in Ethiopia to $454 million this year, said Mark Green, the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Another $210 million in U.S. aid has gone to development projects.
Green announced the additional aid after he met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. In a statement he read to reporters, Green said he had also urged the Ethiopian leader to take “concrete steps to create political space for all voices to be heard and to uphold constitutional and guaranteed rights.”
In August, Ethiopia lifted a 10-month state of emergency imposed in the wake of deadly clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters alleging rights abuses and political cronyism.
“What I said to him is, we look at what countries need around the world to strengthen their ability to deliver for their people,” Green told reporters later.
Featured image courtesy of DVIDS.
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