US cuts aid to Somalia leave agencies struggling
Aid agencies in Somalia are struggling as donor funding falls while acute malnutrition and displacement increase after repeated failed rainy seasons and drought. Médecins Sans Frontières says funding to tackle acute malnutrition dropped by more than 80% this year, and that the United States cut support from $70 million last year to no funding this year. MSF has admitted 22,000 nutrition cases so far, an 80% rise, and found one in four children severely malnourished in displacement camps; donors have provided about $300 million, far below 2022 levels.
US cut its $70 million Somalia aid to zero this year.
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Drought and failed rainy seasons have reduced food and water. Conflict has limited access and pushed people from their homes. If funding does not increase, malnutrition and displacement are likely to keep rising.
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