Ethiopian Government Spokeswoman Says Ethiopia is Distributing Food while Propagandists Attack by pacificanetwork

Ethiopia is a nation of more than 112 million at the center of the geostrategically critical Horn of Africa. Nearly all of today's headlines about Ethiopia repeat dire warnings of famine issued by Mark Lowcock, a British economist serving as Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Some accuse Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is out of favor with the US foreign policy establishment, of using food as a weapon. However, in a press conference yesterday, Ethiopian Government spokeswoman Billene Seyoum detailed efforts to distribute food in Tigray, and accused critics of launching "an orchestrated attack that is condescending in nature; often patronising in tone; belligerent in approach and destructive in outcome.'"