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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera Staff

Millions of children at risk across Africa as aid cuts impact food supplies

Rashida Musa, 29, tends to her sick child who was sent home from the hospital with malnutrition following US aid cuts, in Tudun Gambo, in Nigeria's Bauchi State, May 8, 2025 [File: Sodiq Adelakun/Reuters]

Millions of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has warned, as emergency food supplies dwindle as a result of international aid cuts.

Save the Children said on Thursday that Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan were expected to run out of so-called “ready-to-use therapeutic food” (RUTF), a nutritional paste that has a long shelf life and does not need refrigeration.

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