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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Arpan Rai

Millions of Afghans will be ‘abandoned’ to famine thanks to Trump’s aid cuts, warns UN

Donald Trump’s decision to sever food aid to Afghanistan will leave millions of the country’s poorest people vulnerable to famine this summer, a World Food Programme (WFP) official has told The Independent.

This week the Trump administration quietly reversed its decision to cancel vital food aid programmes to 12 countries via funding for the UN’s WFP, but Afghanistan and Yemen were not included in the U-turn.

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