when many people were homebound. And it continues to grow, Phillips says.
Some people still go to the closed centers and hope that help will come.Mogadishu residents said they suffer, too.
Ma’ow, the bereaved father, is a tailor. He said he had been unable recently to provide three meals a day for his family of six. His wife had no breast milk for Maka’il, whose malnutrition deteriorated between multiple trips to the hospital.Doctors confirmed that malnutrition was the primary factor in Maka’il’s decline.The nutrition center at Banadir Hospital where Ma’ow family had been receiving food assistance is run by Alight Africa, a local partner for the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, and one that has lost funding.
The funding cuts have left UNICEF’s partners unable to provide lifesaving support, including therapeutic supplies and supplemental nutrition at a time when 15% of Somali children are acutely malnourished, said Simon Karanja, a regional UNICEF official.One Alight Africa worker, Abdullahi Hassan, confirmed that the group had to close all their nutrition centers in several districts of Mogadishu. One nutrition project supervisor for the group, Said Abdullahi Hassan, said closures have caused, “tragically, the deaths of some children.”
Without the food assistance they had taken for granted, many Somalis are seeing their children waste away.
More than 500 malnourished children were admitted to the center for malnourished children at Banadir Hospital between April and May, according to Dr. Mohamed Jama, head of the nutrition center.“President Trump has made it clear that our energy security is national security,”
said in announcing the fast-tracking policy in April. “These emergency procedures reflect our unwavering commitment to protecting both.”AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on President Trump fast tracking a Utah uranium mine.
More fast approvals appear likely. Trump’s order also applies to oil, gas, coal, biofuel and hydropower projects — but not renewable energy — on federal lands.Global uranium prices are double what they were at a low point seven years ago and, for the past year, the U.S. has