内容摘要：No. Experts warn that these tariffs could escalate inequities. Low-income families

No. Experts warn that these tariffs could escalate inequities. Low-income families

Former Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalin told state-run TV last month that USAID had provided $1 billion in funding for Somalia in fiscal year 2023, with a similar amount expected for 2024.Much of that funding is now gone.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson in a statement to the AP said “several lifesaving USAID humanitarian assistance programs are active in Somalia, including programs that provide food and nutrition assistance to children,” and they were working to make sure the programs continue when such aid transitions to the State Department on July 1.The problem, aid workers say, is the U.S. hasn’t made clear what programs are lifesaving, or whether whatever funding is left will continue after July 1.The aid group CARE has warned that 4.6 million people in Somalia are projected to face severe hunger by June, an uptick of hundreds of thousands of people from forecasts before the aid cuts.

The effects are felt in rural areas and in Mogadishu, where over 800,000 displaced people shelter. Camps for them are ubiquitous in the city’s suburbs, but many of their centers for feeding the hungry are now closing.Some people still go to the closed centers and hope that help will come.

Mogadishu residents said they suffer, too.

Ma’ow, the bereaved father, is a tailor. He said he had been unable recently to provide three meals a day for his family of six. His wife had no breast milk for Maka’il, whose malnutrition deteriorated between multiple trips to the hospital.— Nearly six years have passed since

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