Hunger monitor from the United States offline in the middle of Trump Funding Freeze

The United States system to monitor famine worldwide has been disconnected in the middle of the order of President Donald Trump for a freezing of 90 days in almost all foreign assistance in the United States.

The Early Wambruna Alert System Network (FewSnet) was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, as part of a world effort to avoid repetition of its devastating impact.

It was designed by government agencies in the United States, including its International Development Agency USAID and NASA’s space agency.

It is considered a gold standard to combine meteorological data and political analysis to predict drought and food insecurity worldwide.

Together with a model executed by the UN, the system allows help officials to aim at the emergency food supply in advance, and the mitigation of the effects of a devastating drought on the Horn of Africa in 2016 is attributed to him.

It has been used to try to attack the aid during the current famine in Sudan as the war continues there.

According to a source familiar with the operations of fewSnet, it was arrested as part of Trump’s suspension of almost all foreign assistance, according to a source familiar with the operations of fewsnet. USAID has not responded to a request for comments on the closure.

The network is “incredibly important,” according to Dave Harden, who supervised his operation in USAID during the 2016 food security emergency in East Africa.

“Because we had few people, and we had teams on guard, we were able to preic food and supplies (in Ethiopia) and plant it in a way that was remarkably different from what happened in 1984,” he told the BBC.

Last Friday, the State Department issued an order of “work stop” in all foreign assistance in the United States, with a value of almost $ 70 billion a year, with the exception of emergency food aid and the Military aid to Israel and Egypt, waiting for a 90 -day review to guarantee Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy.

Since then, the Secretary of State Frame generalized confusion in the global aid sectorsignificant parts of which have been overturned by freezing.

Semetsnet is operated by a USAID contractor, who declined to comment, while his website is managed by another supplier who did not respond to comments requests.

Explaining the thought behind the amplitude of the stop orders, Rubio said Thursday that “the things that save lives” were being exempt, and added that others could request exemptions to ensure that their projects were not an inefficient use of money from the money of the money from the money of American taxpayers and were. Aligned with Trump’s priorities.

The defenders of the freezing of foreign aid see donations from the United States as fans and carrying too much load compared to other rich western countries.

The Trump administration has also promised to end foreign aid funds for diversity and inclusion programs, transgender rights, family planning, abortions and other issues attacked by many Republicans.

The exemption for emergency food aid does not seem to have included the hunger monitoring operation.

Jeremy Konyndyk, former Usaid official, described the system as “the best unique resource” in the world for the prediction of food insecurity, and added that in 2011 he saw the famine in Somalia months before time.

“The client was the government of the United States … but everything put online. And that was really important: it became a global public good, (because) any donor in the world can use that, any government in the World can use that “,” He “, He,” He “He,” He, “He,” He, “He,” “He”, He, “He” He, “He,” “said.

“It is a really critical resource … sounding alarm when a great food crisis emerges.”