
A Sudanese woman from a community kitchen, run by local volunteers, prepares meals for people who are affected by conflict and extreme hunger, in Omdurman, Sudan, on September 19, 2024. — Reuters
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The Trump administration’s US foreign aid deduction and reorganization measures have severely damaged the complex international system that seeks to avoid hunger and respond.
International famine monitoring and relief systems, which were already struggling to handle food crises that US President Donald Trump was clearing the developing world before returning to the White House. As a result of the sudden stopping, many achievements were achieved.
On January 20, Trump’s order to freeze the expenses to take office is to continue for 90 days, while his administration reviews all foreign aid programs. Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio has said that an exception allows for emergency food assistance.
But most of this emergency aid has been temporarily stopped because humanitarian organizations seek clarification that relief programs are allowed to continue. Expanding the issue this week is a move to close Trump’s US government’s top aid provider, the US Agency for International Development (USAD).
Former USAID official, who has been briefed on the situation, said humanitarian organizations are waiting for the approval of the US Department of State, who wait for the approval of the US Department of State.
Rescue workers told Reuters that the US -provided cash aid aims to help people buy food and other needs in Sudan and Gaza. They said that a volunteer community -driven community is financed for an American co -operative effort in Sudan.
Human sympathy organizations have targeted road blocks in payment of emergency dinner operations. At least six sources said questions have not been answered about which programs are allowed to continue, because people who usually ask for such inquiries – USAID officials holiday Placed on
The initial warning systems of famine (FEET), the US company, which regularly developed food security alerts, have also been shut down to prevent famine. The loss causes relief organizations without the key source of guidance where and how and how human aid can be deployed.
And the US government has issued a stop work order of nutritional supplements to two major manufacturers, which reduces the supply of life -saving food for severe nutritional children worldwide.
“We are something that almost every Everyone agrees – those young children who are starving and need emergency aid,” said Mark Moore, chief executive officer of Georgia’s Nutrition. One of the two suppliers, Mark Moore, chief executive officer of Nutrition, said that one of the two suppliers ordered to stop the supplements. “It is not hype or speculation or hand -to -hand, or to counter statistics, it is to say that hundreds of thousands of nutrients can die without USAID.”
Immediately after the story was published, the US government informed Edisia Nutrition, another manufacturer of Mana and other manufacturer, Rhod Eyland, that the orders for the stopwork had been abolished.
The US Department of State did not respond to requests to comment on the story.
Two -dimensional crisis
The conflict is hungering a large number of people, and the United States is the largest donor of aid. It has provided $ 64.6 billion in humanitarian aid in the last five years. It was at least 38 % of such a total partnership listed by the United Nations.
In 2023, about 282 million people in 59 countries and regions suffered a shortage of food, which threatens their lives or livelihoods, according to a global report on food crises.
Before the break in US aid, the world’s famine -fighting system was in great stress, which was driven by conflicts and political instability, as Writers in detail in a series of reports last year. Stopping in aid creates a two -dimensional crisis for humanitarian organizations that are working to relieve severe hunger.
It affects programs that aims to prevent massiveness. Further immediately, the purpose of its programs is to respond to crises and save lives.
Food assistance in organs around the world has about 30,000 metric tons that aims to feed children and adults with severe nutrients in Sudan suffering from famine. He said that some are sitting in hot warehouses, where it is in danger of being damaged.
Foods include lentils, rice and wheat, a worker said – at least 2 million people for a month are enough to feed. The man said that some items have an immediate date for expiry and that Trump’s 90 -day break will be unbearable.
Rescue groups are confused as to which relief programs are eligible to freeze costs and if they can get them – because most USAID staff has been kept on leave.
Calculation of food insecurity
The long -term, footsteps of the net shuttering, has a stand to eliminate the world’s ability to predict, prevent and respond to the food insecurity.
After the devastating famine in East and West Africa, in 1985, the US Government, produced by the US government, is funded by USAID and is managed by Communics International, based in Washington, DC.
On some net net, US policy makers are accused of providing preliminary warnings about hunger crises, which may require a humanitarian response. It has used data from federal agencies, scientists and other human -friendly organizations to prepare food security reports. USAID and human -friendly organizations used some net reports to make a decision where to send food aid.
Researchers who collect and analyze data related to food insecurity and famine say that some net net is essential for global efforts to fight hunger. He says it can be far more fertile and viable than its UN -backed counterpart, Integrated Food Security Phase Ranking System (IPC), a global contribution that is non -food in dozens of lands. Reports about protection.
In most areas where it works, the IPC requires consensus on its results between local government officials and representatives of other humanitarian agencies. As a result, political efforts may be and delayed and delayed efforts to make the world aware of a crisis.
Researchers say that some people do not face these consensus requirements, and so is fast and more efficient. In 2024, the Photos Net produced more than 1,000 dose insecurity views, warnings and other reports covering more than 34 countries. IPC published 71 reports in 33 countries.
The IPC refuses to comment on the death of the photos net. “The implications of the move are unclear,” said IPC spokesman Frank Naikiro.
On January 27, Communics, which manages the photos net, received a stop work order by USAID. Two days later, the photos net website became dark, which eliminated thousands of reports of US taxpayers with funds.
“The elimination of the footwear net is just as the steering wheel is to be removed from the car,” said Andrew Natisos, a professor at Texas A&M University, said Andrew Natisius, a professor at Andrew Natisius, a professor at Andrew Natisos, 2001 to 2006. You do not know where the car is going. “
Foot Net has been an important player to assess food insecurity in most of the worst hunger crises in the world. An important route to the IPC and the global humanitarian system, its reports presented a strategic analysis of how conflicts and other issues affect food insecurity at certain locations. It also forced the IPC to work when the non -supportive body work was suffered from politics.
“Without some net net,” the only important component of the IPC system is knocking, said Alex de Wall, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School at Tutf University. “
In December, Reuters reported that the Sudanese government had planned to delay the commitment of IPC famine in Darfur. So the net, which has already concluded that the famine is taking place, forced the IPC’s famine review committee to call on the objections of the Sudanese officials. Finally, the IPC Committee agreed to declare that the famine had attacked Zamzam, a wide camp for the homeless people, in the North Darfur.
But in Washington too, net trends to issue a two -pronged diagnosis have caused a fire. In December, the Photos Net published a report that predicted famine in the northern part of Gaza by early 2025.
After the report was released, US Ambassador to Israel from October 2023 wrote that issuing such a search was “irresponsible”. The Favif Net withdrew the report, saying its warning was “under further review” and is expected to update the report in January.
With his chief funder, USAID dissolved, pure employees say they are not optimistic about the re -starting organization.
Chris Newton, a think tank based in Brussels, an international crisis -based think tank, early warning in the international crisis group and specializing in food security, said his seemingly reporting about the death of humanitarian crisis I leave a “difference”. He said that the loss of the net would damage efforts to eliminate famine in Sudan and prevent it in other hotspots and could lead to the elimination of a vast network of data providers, which Globally, it is very important to understand the dangers of human empathy.
Newton said, “In the 2000s, famine was coming to an end, and now the possibility of return will be accelerated when we become blinded by it, even becoming another common source of politics and war. Goes. “