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Witnesses: USAID cuts left community kitchens shuttered as Sudan faces famine
Summary
NGO witnesses and lawmakers told a House subcommittee that U.S. aid cuts and USAID reorganization forced nearly 80% of locally run emergency response room activities to stop, leaving community kitchens and other life‑saving services severely curtailed ahead of an escalating famine.
WASHINGTON — Aid leaders told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that local, community‑run emergency response rooms (ERRs) once funded in part by U.S. assistance are critical to saving lives in besieged areas of Sudan and that funding cuts have sharply reduced their operations.
Ranking Member Jacobs told the committee that "The Trump administration cut all funding for these kitchens, forcing nearly 80% of all activities to stop and affecting…
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