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US aid cuts force UNICEF to scale back Lebanon nutrition programs, official says
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Residents walk amid the rubble of destroyed buldings as they return to the southern Lebanese village of Meis al-Jabal on February 18, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
US aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency UNICEF to suspend or scale back many programs in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, an official says.
“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programs and that includes nutrition programs,” UNICEF’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, tells reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut.
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