
Because President Donald Trump frozen for 90 days of frozen orders in almost all US foreign aid, the monitoring system of the US monitoring famine has been released.
The famine warning system network (LidsNet) was established after the World of Ethiopia in 1984. This is part of global efforts to prevent repeating its devastating impact.
It is designed by US government agencies, including USAID and NASA Aerospace Agency, its international development agencies.
It is considered a gold standard that combines weather data and political analysis to predict drought and unsafe global grain.
In addition to the model operated by the United Nations, the system also allows assistance officials to supply emergency food in advance, and is considered to be caused by alleviating the impact of Africa’s devastating drought in 2016.
As the war continues, it has been used to try to aid for Sudan’s current famine.
According to sources familiar with Lindsnet operations, the briefing service provided by the network has been stopped, which is part of Trump’s almost all foreign aid.
When asked about it, the US International Development Agency said that it was “quickly dealt with abnormal requests”, but it could not “solve the problem related to every abnormal problem.” It is unclear whether it is necessary to stay on a few networks.
Dave Harden said the network was “very important”.
He said to the Broadcasting Corporation: “Because we rarely have SNET and have a defender, we can (in Ethiopia) pre -process food and supply, and plant it in different ways from 1984.”
Last Friday, the State Council issued a “stop work” order to all US foreign aid, which is close to $ 70 billion per year. In addition to the emergency food assistance and military assistance from Israel and Egypt, waiting for a 90 -day review to ensure the plan and Trump Pu’s “US first” foreign policy remained consistent.
Since then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has expanded the scope of projects with exemptions, including the medical and asylum in life The general chaos of the global aid departmentThe important part of it has been frozen and subverted.
Few SNETs were operated by USAID contractors. The contractor refused to comment, and its website was operated by another provider that did not respond to the request of the comment.
Mr. Ruby’s thought behind the breadth of the stop order said on Thursday that “saving life” was exempted from consistent with Trump’s priorities.
Foreign assistance supporters believe that the donation of the United States is swollen compared to other wealthy Western countries and bears too much burden.
The Trump administration also vowed to end foreign aid funds for diversity and tolerance plans, transgender rights, family planning, abortion, and many other Republicans’ long -term problems.
So far, the exemption of emergency food assistance does not seem to include famine tracking operations.
Former Senior officials of the USAID (USAID) Jeremy Konyndyk, Jeremy Konyndyk, described the system as the “single best resource” predicted in the world, and added that in 2011, famine A few months in advance appeared in Somalia.
“Customers are the US government … but everything is on the Internet. This is really important-it has become a global public interest, because any donor in the world can use it, and any government in the world can use it,” he said.
“This is a very critical resource … When a major food crisis occurs, alert will be issued.”
A spokesman for the US International Development Agency said: “We are quickly dealing with abnormal requests. We have approved several emergency requests within a few hours. We cannot solve every problem related to the abnormality consistent with the presidential administrative order, but promise to be transparent.
“The Secretary of State has approved humanitarian assistance to save life and issued exemptions for specific purposes. Existing the executors of existing humanitarian aid programs of life -saving life should continue or restore their work.”