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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kaamil Ahmed

Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit

Women in headscarves and robes line up with children to receive food
People wait for food aid in Mogadishu last week. It is estimated that 4.4 million people in Somalia will be pushed into malnutrition in April. Photograph: Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP/Getty

Cuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already leading to more people starving to death around the world, experts have warned.

As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% cut in funding to USAid will affect the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said its aid provision in Somalia is being reduced, after last month’s estimate that 4.4 million people in the east African nation will be pushed into malnutrition from April because of drought, global inflation and conflict.

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