80, 000 Malnourished Children In Nigeria Risk Losing Aid — UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Agency reported on Friday that the president’s administration’s cuts to foreign aid will have an impact on the supply of lifesaving food for 80, 000 children in Nigeria who are suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in the next two months due to the country’s lack of funding.

A total of 1.3 million children under the age of five who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition are at risk of losing access to life-saving assistance this year in Ethiopia and Nigeria, according to the organization.

Without any additional funding, UNICEF’s deputy executive director, Kitty Van der Heijden, stated to reporters in Geneva on Friday via video link from Abuja that “we will run out of our supply chain of Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food by May.” This means that 70, 000 Ethiopian children who depend on this type of treatment cannot be served. The phrase “life-threatening interruption to ongoing treatment”

UNICEF warned that supplies in Nigeria might run out by the end of this month to feed 80 000 malnourished children. Van der Heijden recently described being with a child in a Maiduguri hospital who was suffering from a severe malnourishment.

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According to Reuters, international donors have recently lowered their contributions to UN agencies, including UNICEF. When President Donald Trump’s first day of resumption of office in January, the United States, its top donor, imposed a 90-day pause on all of its foreign aid, the country’s financial woes were compounded.

The United States Agency for International Development’s (U.S.) actions and subsequent orders that halted numerous programs around the world have jeopardized the delivery of life-saving food and medical aid, causing chaos in global humanitarian relief efforts.

Van der Heijden warned that the agency would soon experience a “child survival crisis” due to the agency’s sudden nature of the cuts.

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