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Trump and the Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet)

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Reuters A woman sits with her malnourished one-year-old daughter as they wait for her to receive treatment at Abi Adi General Hospital in the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. The baby is lying on a bed. The mother is sitting next to the baby with her back to the camera.

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Last Friday (Jan 24, 2025), the State Department issued a «stop-work» order on all US foreign assistance, worth nearly $70bn a year, with the exception of emergency food aid and military aid to Israel and Egypt, pending a 90-day review to ensure programmes’ alignment with Trump’s «America First» foreign policy

BBC

Tom Bateman

US State Department correspondent

The United States’ system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump’s order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance.

The Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, as part of a worldwide effort to prevent a repeat of its devastating impact.

It was designed by US government agencies, including its international development body USAID and the space agency Nasa.

It is regarded as a gold standard in combining weather data and political analysis to predict drought and food insecurity globally.

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