BBC News, Addis Ababa
 A new system of aid delivery is being put in place |
Emergency food aid is not getting out fast enough to the people who need it in Ethiopia's troubled Somali region, a top US official says.
Michael Hess, of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), says only 41% of the food allocated for July has reached its intended recipients.
The US supplies nearly all of the aid, and Mr Hess says such distribution is not good enough.
Ethnic Somali rebels have been fighting an insurgency in the region for years.
In a drought like this one, Ethiopia depends heavily on food aid - and that means that it depends on the generosity of the US.
As the man in charge of this aid, Mr Hess has been to see for himself how the system is working.
Big changes expected
Ethiopia's Somali region does have particular problems.
An armed rebellion and an army counter-insurgency operation have been going on for more than a year across the centre of the region.read more
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