India, March 13 -- President Donald Trump's crackdown on the country's foreign aid agency, USAID, has hit aid organisations' relief operations in Ethiopia's Tigray, which witnessed a two-year-long civil war between the federal government and the Tigray's People's Liberation Front.

The East African country has been the biggest beneficiary of US aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving $1.8 billion in the 2023 financial year. The funds were spent to provide HIV medications, vaccines, literacy programs and job creation for about one million refugees displaced by the civil war, AP reported.

A majority of these relief programmes have been stopped as the Trump administration sent USAID's staff on administrative leave for a 90-day review of the ag...