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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Fred Harter

Trump’s aid freeze shuts down ‘gold standard’ famine-monitoring system

Hungry looking African children being fed boiled  leaves in war-torn Sudan.
Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, feeds boiled leaves gathered from the wild to hungry orphaned children in Sudan. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

The system for monitoring global food crises appears to have been suspended after President Donald Trump’s executive order froze US foreign aid.

The website for the US-funded famine early warning systems network (Fews Net) was not accessible on Friday. A banner said reports and data were “currently unavailable” without elaborating.

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