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Nigeria among four countries to benefit from $638m US aid

July 9, 20171.5K views0 comments

Nigeria, along with Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan, is to benefit from $638 million in new aids that have just been announced by the United States government, according to reports filed by Associated Press and obtained by Businessamlive. The four countries are regarded as places where conflict has helped to cause what the United Nations calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in more than 70 years.

“This is truly a life-saving gift,” said David Beasley, the new American director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, following the announcement made as Donald Trump, president of the United States attended the Group of 20 summit in Germany.

While the United States is the world’s largest humanitarian donor, Trump’s proposed deep cuts to foreign aid — more than 30 percent — have caused widespread concern, Associated Press reported.

“We welcome President Trump’s attention to the global humanitarian crisis, but he was announcing aid that Congress approved months ago and that his administration has delayed,” Rev. David Beckmann, president of the Washington-based Christian organization Bread for the World, said in a statement.

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The total U.S. humanitarian assistance to the four countries is now more than $1.8 billion this fiscal year, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.

Tens of millions of people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria face hunger amid conflict. Yemen has the world’s largest cholera outbreak, while half of drought-hit Somalia’s 12 million people need aid. South Sudan’s civil war and Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency have contributed to severe hunger.

The WFP said in a tweet that the new U.S. donation “comes just as families face the time of year when food stocks run out.” The U.N. agency earlier this year warned that food aid could be cut for more than a million hungry Nigerians if promised funding from the international community didn’t arrive.

In May, Trump announced $329 million in “anti-famine” aid to the four countries.

While the Trump administration’s 2018 spending plan does not eliminate money for emergency food aid, it ends a critical program by consolidating it into a broader account that covers all international disaster assistance. Doing so reduces the amount of money the U.S. dedicates to fighting famine to $1.5 billion next year, from $2.6 billion in 2016.

Trump officials say the proposed changes will streamline U.S. aid programs, eliminate redundancies and increase efficiency. Relief organizations fear less U.S. money will mean an increase in famine and hunger related deaths, particularly in Africa, if Congress approves the budget.

US President Donald Trump (C) poses with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (L), Guinea’s President Alpha Conde (2ndL), Acting President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo (2ndR) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn after a family photo of the leaders of the G7 and the leaders of some African countries that have been invited for the two-day talks, on the second day of the G7 summit of Heads of State and of Government, on May 27, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily.

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