Africa Business Radio

The mission's head says forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have looted the US government humanitarian agency's warehouses in the neighbouring Amhara state.The head of USAID in Ethiopia told state television that Tigrayan fighters had emptied warehouses, taking food and other items also stole trucks.He says they had caused a great deal of destruction in the villages they went to.Last week, officials in Amhara accused Tigrayan forces of killing about 40 civilians and destroying schools, hospitals and other facilities.The Tigray rebel forces have formed an alliance with a rebel group in the country's largest state of Oromia, threatening a far larger part of Ethiopia.