(16 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dikwa, Nigeria – 29 April 2025
1. Various of an acutely malnourished child in a stabilization center
2. SOUNDBITE (Kanuri) Yagana Bulama, mother of malnourished child:
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"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."
3. Mid of a mother feeding her acute malnourished child
4. Various of malnourished children in a stabilization center
5. Close of mother giving milk to her malnourished child
6. Mid of mothers at a stabilization center
7. Various of medical staff checking the malnourishment stage of a child
8. Mid of medical assistant measuring milk for an acute malnutrition child
9. Close of malnourished child in a stabilization center
10. Mid of Dikwa residents with sticks on their heads
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayuba Kauji, Health and Nutrition Supervisor at INTERSOS Stabilization Center:
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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."
12. Various of doctor checking a malnourished child
13. Various of malnourished child in a stabilization center
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maiduguri, Nigeria – 30 April 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Trond Jensen, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Maiduguri:
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"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."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dikwa, Nigeria – 29 April 2025
15. Mid of a mother with her malnourished child in a stabilization center
16. Various of Maiduguri indigenes in an IDP camp in Dikwa
17. 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 hard programs serving the most vulnerable, like Yagana Bulama, who previously lost a set of triplets to hunger.
When she gave birth to twins last August, both were severely underweight, and things only got worse as she was unable to provide them with complementary feeding when they turned six months-old.
Workers from Mercy Corps, an aid organization funded by USAID, enrolled them in an outpatient therapeutic program (OTP), which provided them with ready-to-use therapeutic food, or RUTF, a calorie-dense, lifesaving paste used to treat severe acute malnutrition.
But in February, just as the Bulama twins needed continued treatment, Mercy Corps abruptly ended the program, which was entirely financed by USAID.
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