{"id":2425,"date":"2025-08-28T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/millions-of-children-at-risk-across-africa-as-aid-cuts-impact-food-supplies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:36:17","slug":"millions-of-children-at-risk-across-africa-as-aid-cuts-impact-food-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/millions-of-children-at-risk-across-africa-as-aid-cuts-impact-food-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of children at risk across Africa as aid cuts impact food supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Millions of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has warned, as emergency food supplies dwindle as a result of international aid cuts.<\/p>\n

Save the Children said on Thursday that Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan were expected to run out of so-called \u201cready-to-use therapeutic food\u201d (RUTF), a nutritional paste that has a long shelf life and does not need refrigeration.<\/p>\n

In Nigeria alone, the lives of 3.5 million children under age five who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition will be under threat without access to treatment and nutrition support, the humanitarian group said.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine being a parent with a severely malnourished child,\u201d Yvonne Arunga, Save the Children\u2019s regional director for East and Southern Africa, said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow imagine that the only thing that could help your child bounce back from the brink of death is therapeutic food and that food is out of stock when it was once available.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warning comes just months after the United Nations announced sweeping programme<\/a> cuts in June amid what the UN\u2019s humanitarian office described as \u201cthe deepest funding cuts ever to hit the international humanitarian sector\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been forced into a triage of human survival,\u201d UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe math is cruel, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Too many people will not get the support they need, but we will save as many lives as we can with the resources we are given.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key international donors, led notably by the United States, have drastically scaled back foreign aid funding, leading to widespread concern that critical aid \u2013 from food and healthcare<\/a> to poverty reduction \u2013 will be affected in countries around the world.<\/p>\n

In July, as part of US President Donald Trump\u2019s push to scale back federal spending, Congress approved a package<\/a> that slashed the country\u2019s foreign aid expenditures by about $8bn.<\/p>\n

Last month, Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym MSF) reported that at least 652 malnourished children<\/a> had died at its facilities in northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025 due to a lack of timely care.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently witnessing massive budget cuts, particularly from the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries, which are having a real impact on the treatment of malnourished children,\u201d said Ahmed Aldikhari<\/a>, MSF\u2019s country representative in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Save the Children said staff at one of its clinics in northwestern Kenya have been forced to try to get food from other facilities to help feed malnourished children.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if [the children] are not supported, I know very soon [we] will be losing them,\u201d said Sister Winnie, who runs the facility in Turkana.<\/p>\n

About 105,000 RUTF cartons are needed through the end of the year across Kenya, Save the Children said, but only about 79,000 have been secured so far, with stocks expected to run out in October.<\/p>\n

The group said that overall, shortfalls in nutrition funding could cut off treatment to 15.6 million people in 18 countries around the world, including more than 2.3 million severely malnourished children this year.<\/p>\n

The situation is expected to deteriorate further in 2026, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns. Millions of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has warned, as emergency food supplies dwindle as a result of international aid cuts. Save the Children said on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}