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Clea Skopeliti

Latest US cuts to emergency food schemes 'a death sentence' for millions, UN warns

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the Trump administration’s fresh cuts to emergency food schemes will amount to “a death sentence” for millions of starving people.

The UN organisation, which is the world’s largest provider of food relief, pleaded with the US to reverse its decision to end funding for life-saving schemes in impoverished and war-torn countries, after it appeared to go back on a previous pledge to spare emergency food aid.

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