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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dikwa, Nigeria – 29 April 2025
1. Various of an acutely malnourished child in a stabilization center
2. Mid of a mother feeding her acute malnourished child
3. Various of malnourished children in a stabilization center
4. Close of mother giving milk to her malnourished child
5. Mid of mothers at a stabilization center
6. Aerial of Dikwa ++MUTE++
7. Mid of Yagana Bulama in her hut
8. Close of Yagana and her surviving twin
9. SOUNDBITE (Kanuri) Yagana Bulama, mother of malnourished child:
"I have been entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. Eight months ago, I gave birth to twins. Unfortunately, both were diagnosed with malnutrition by the Mercy Corps Nutrition team and were enrolled in their Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) at Fulatari. After about three weeks of treatment, the program was abruptly halted due to the stop work order directive. As a result of the interruption in their care, my twins’ health conditions deteriorated. Tragically, I lost one of them."
10. Various of doctor checking the malnourishment stage of a child
11. SOUNDBITE (English), Ayuba Kauji, Health and Nutrition Supervisor, INTERSOS Stabilization Center, Dikwa:
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"With the USAID funding and other donors, a lot has been achieved. However, with the abrupt cut in funding, what has been achieved is almost like we’re trying to undo our success then. Because more patients are coming down with complications and complaints, especially patients coming down with more severe acute malnutrition and its complications."
12. Various of a mother and her acutely malnourished child in a stabilization center
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Maiduguri, Nigeria – 30 April 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English), Trond Jensen, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Maiduguri:
"What we are seeing is that 50% of the nutrition efforts that we have put in place are now gone. 70% of health support is under threat if it hasn’t disappeared already. And that means that the figures for children in need have doubled, but our capacity to deal with it has halved or even worse. So, it’s a desperate situation where we need support, not tomorrow, but today, to be able to save these children."
14. Various of Jensen in his office
15. SOUNDBITE (English), Trond Jensen, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Maiduguri:
"It is a truly dreadful situation. It’s very, very difficult, and the only way we can solve these problems is by working together, the international community with Nigerian organizations, with the Nigerian government. And it means that we need to innovate, we need to think outside the box, and, in many ways, come up with new solutions for how we work, and that’s very much what we are looking at, not just here in Nigeria, but globally, a humanitarian reset."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dikwa, Nigeria – 29 April 2025
16. Mid of a medical assistant measuring milk for an acute malnutrition child
17. Mid of an IDP camp in Dikwa
18. Aerial of Dikwa ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
For years, the United States Agency for International Development has been the backbone of humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, helping non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people.
But early this year, the Trump administration cut more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world, hitting programs serving the most vulnerable, like Yagana Bulama, who previously lost a set of triplets to hunger.
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