Shortly after his inauguration last month, Trump signed an executive order implementing a 90-day pause in US foreign development aid.
“There is a state of confusion to be frank,“ Jens Laerke, a spokesman for United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA, told reporters in Geneva.
Adding to the confusion, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a Trump close adviser, said Monday that the giant USAID humanitarian agency will be “shutting down” as part of his radical -- and critics say unconstitutional -- drive to shrink the US government.
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Last year, Washington contributed a full 47 percent of the UN’s global humanitarian appeal, or around $14 billion, UN spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said.
He also stressed that OCHA and other UN agencies had tried to broaden their donor base for years.
Pio Smith, Asia-Pacific director for the UN agency for sexual and reproductive rights, UNFPA, warned the US cuts were expected to have particularly dramatic consequences in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is already one of the deadliest countries in the world for women to give birth, he said, pointing out that a mother there dies from preventable pregnancy complications every two hours.
For Afghanistan, “between 2025 and 2028 we estimate that the absence of US support will result in 1,200 additional maternal deaths and 109,000 additional unintended pregnancies”, Smith said.
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