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A US-Funded Nutrition Program Was Helping to Keep This Woman’s Baby Alive. Days After the Program Was Cut, He Died
The US aid freeze halted nutrition programs reaching over 55,000 children in northeast Nigeria, increasing malnutrition risks amid conflict and drought, officials warn.
- Yagana Usman, living in a displaced persons camp in Borno, Nigeria, lost an infant twin to malnutrition after a US-funded nutrition program was abruptly halted in March 2024.
- The Trump administration froze $4.9 billion in foreign aid earlier this year, including programs delivering lifesaving nutrition support in Nigeria and other crisis hotspots.
- Mercy Corps closed 42 nutrition programs serving more than 3.6 million people, and the World Food Programme reduced feeding support from 1.3 million to 850,000 people in northern Nigeria between July and September.
- David Stevenson, head of WFP in Nigeria, acknowledged that the organization had to reduce support despite receiving a $32.5 million contribution from the US. Margaret Schuler highlighted that US humanitarian aid represents a very small fraction of the overall federal budget, noting that more than $54 billion has been spent since 2021.
- The funding cuts risk reversing decades of progress, increasing malnutrition deaths, and endangering children like Usman's surviving twin, who remains dependent on reduced nutritional aid amid ongoing uncertainty.
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A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died
Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisions made thousands of miles away in Washington, DC.
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