The US and Britain are call­ing for an inves­ti­ga­tion over how Ethiopia han­dles aid money. There have been accu­sa­tions that Ethiopia has politi­cized who ben­e­fits from the aid money.

From this Daily Nation arti­cle that we found at All Africa, writer Argaw Ashine tells us more about the alle­ga­tion and receives quotes from both sides.

A week ago, Ethiopia’s main oppo­si­tion group, the Forum for Demo­c­ra­tic Dia­logue accused the gov­ern­ment of using its access to foreign-funded, anti-poverty pro­grammes to gain sup­port for the rul­ing Ethiopian People’s Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Demo­c­ra­tic Front.

Ethiopia sched­uled a gen­eral elec­tion for May 2010.

“We are very much con­cerned about it,” Mr Karl Wycoff, United Sates deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary of state, told reporters in the Ethiopian cap­i­tal, Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopian author­i­ties denied the alle­ga­tion. Mr Mitiku Kassa Min­is­ter for dis­as­ter and emer­gency told the Nation his gov­ern­ment was try­ing to inves­ti­gate the issue how­ever the alle­ga­tion is ‘base­less’. “We are always doing our human­i­tar­ian work regard­less of any dis­crim­i­na­tion” Mr Mitiku said.

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