Trump Admin announces food aid for 93 million dollars to help one million children suffering from malnutrition

The Trump administration will provide $ 93 million with new food aid to 12 African countries and Haiti to combat malnutrition, the State Department announced.

State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott, said in a press briefing on Thursday that the Trump administration would deal with nearly a million children with malnutrition to ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF).

Food aid will be distributed in Haiti, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Madagascar, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Kenya and Chad.

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British Foreign Minister David Lammy (L) meets patients in a malnutrition center near the Chad border with Sudan, where thousands of refugees crossed Chad fleeing the civil war, in Adre, on January 24, 2025. Chad is among the countries in which the United States will pay the recently announced $ 93 million. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

After the announcement, Pigott was invited to Carréger the gap between the Trump Revocation of Visas belonging to Haitians in the United States and plans to expel them, with administration efforts to try to promote stability in the region thanks to food aid.

“Listen, we have seen actions of this administration in order to try to encourage stability in Haiti. We saw actions, announcements made to try to go after those who lead to instability in Haiti,” replied Pigott.

“For details on TP, I suppose you are talking about whether they are afraid of (Department of Homeland Security) in terms of these specific decisions. But we have seen actions here of the State Department to try to encourage stability in Haiti.”

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A woman helps unload a basket of mangoes from a truck that has just arrived from the province to distribute fresh fruit to the sellers in downtown Port-au-Prince on June 14, 2024. (Photo of Clarens Siffroy / AFP via Getty Images)

The announcement of the new aid to foreign nutrition comes after the Trump administration has emptied billions of foreign aid government expenses. As part of the reforms, the American Agency for International Development (USAID), the main government agency responsible for disburse foreign aid, has been integrated into the State Department.

The $ 93 million in new foods will be used by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and will present until June, According to SEMAFOR, who spoke to a head of the familiar State Department with the new disbursement of food aid.

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In addition to providing ready -to -eat foods, the new assistance, which will all be of American manufacturing, according to the State Department, will also be used to help produce or cultivate foods more ready to eat, Semaor reported.