Trump administration says it cut funding to some UN food programmes by mistake

Trump administration says it cut funding to some UN food programmes by mistake
Food parcels provided by the World Food Programme in Syria (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

The US State Department said it had reversed an undisclosed number of sweeping funding cuts to UN World Food Programme emergency projects in 14 impoverished countries, saying it had terminated some of the contracts for life-saving aid by mistake.

“There were a few programmes that were cut in other countries that were not meant to be cut, that have been rolled back and put into place,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters.

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