USA restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where humanitarian needs remain dire

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.

- AGENCIES CAIRO, 9 APRIL

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. Aid officials warned the cuts would deny food to millions of people and end health programmes for women and children.

The administration informed the World Food Programme of its reversal on Tuesday, according to two U.N. officials.