(9 Apr 2025)
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Mogadishu, Somalia – 8 April 2025
1. Various of camp for displaced people on outskirts of Mogadishu
2. Various of children and women at camp
3. Various of firewood seller, Isha Abdi, tying up firewood
4. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Isha Abdi, firewood seller:
"I am asking the U.S. government to see me. I don’t have a proper home for shelter, nor do I have food or water. I lack many essentials and have no proper clothes. As you can see, I am surviving on what I earn from selling this firewood. And at 60 years old, I urge that aid not be stopped."
5. Various of Mohamed Elmi Afrah, political analyst and former aid worker, working on laptop
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Elmi Afrah, political analyst and former aid worker:
"The people that will be affected directly, they will include mothers, lactating women, children, but not limited to them. So those are the people really who are very vulnerable and who saw aid as (a) major source of livelihood. But other people will be affected, especially people who worked for the aid industry and for (who) worked for aid organisations, like the U.N. organisations, international organisations. And already we know that some of these implementing partners or implementing organisations (inaudible) already, they have terminated, you know, projects or contracts because of uncertainty in the funding for the future."
7. Mustafa Diriye, logistics manager and WFP contractor, walking to warehouse
8. Close of Diriye unlocking warehouse door
9. Wide of Diriye opening warehouse door
10. Various of Diriye inside warehouse
11. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mustafa Diriye, logistics manager and WFP contractor:
"We were shocked to hear that the U.S. government had terminated its contracts with WFP. This was completely unexpected, and the impact on us has been immediate and significant. Many of us are the sole breadwinners for our families, and countless vulnerable people rely on this aid. Therefore, we respectfully ask for support to be restored."
12. Woman at camp for internally displaced people
13. Various of woman filling container with water from hose
STORYLINE:
There was some uncertainty among humanitarian organisations and beneficiaries of food aid across Somalia on Tuesday.
The Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations while maintaining them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries, officials said Wednesday.
The United States had initially cut funding for projects in more than a dozen countries, part of a dramatic reduction of foreign aid led by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The administration informed the World Food Program of its reversal on Tuesday, according to two U.N. officials.
An official with the U.S. Agency for International Development confirmed that Jeremy Lewin, the Musk associate overseeing the dismantling of USAID, had ordered the reversal of some of his weekend contract terminations on Tuesday, after the Associated Press reported the cuts.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The WFP said Monday that it had been notified that USAID was cutting funding to the U.N. agency’s emergency food program in 14 countries in all.
It was not immediately clear Wednesday how many of those other country cutoffs still stood.
Mustafa Diriye, who has worked as a logistics manager for five years with Lusidle Petroleum and Logistics LTD, a WFP contractor, said the initial news of the reported cuts came as a shock.
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