The east African nation has remained deeply poor and unstable since independence in 2011 and is massively dependent on international aid despite its oil wealth.
On Tuesday, the British Lancet journal projected that the cuts to USAID could lead to more than 14 million deaths by 2030, including over 4.5 million children under the age of five.
“Already we are having children die,“ he added.
Rwot estimated they had lost 30 percent of their funding due to the USAID cuts.
Rwot recently visited northern Warrap state, near the border with Sudan -- itself enduring a civil war -- describing how the warehouses there were “very empty”.
It comes a day after the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that acute malnutrition rates among refugee children in South Sudan -- fleeing the war in Sudan -- had “already breached emergency thresholds”.
“We are running on sheer faith,“ Rwot said.
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