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US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions of people need it
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US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions of people need it

  • By SAMY MAGDY, RIAZAT BUTT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed cuts in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world's poorest countries. It marks the latest round of abrupt cancellations of foreign aid contracts run through the U.S. Agency for International Development and equally sudden reversals. The U.S. initially cut funding for projects in more than a dozen countries. The State Department confirmed Wednesday it reversed the cuts for emergency food programs in Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Ecuador. The status of funding for six other countries is unclear. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says she wants to see funding restored.