Peter S. Goodman
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737 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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If those centers were still there, then a lot of these kids ending up in the hospital needing oxygen to breathe and feeding tubes to stay alive would be treated and assessed earlier.
But that capacity has been dismantled.
Right.
Well, let me put it to you this way.
In February, so this is before the impacts of the Iran war, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that there are six and a half million people in Somalia.
That's about a third of the population that are suffering hunger at levels that are deemed an emergency.
And early last year, the World Food Program, which is the largest source of food aid in the country, has funds to serve as many as 2 million people a month.
Well, when I was there, this is late April, early May, they were down to funds that were adequate to serve 300,000 people a month.
And that was going to run out at the end of June.
Correct.
And I actually got a snapshot of this aid running out in real time in Somalia.
Wow.
So I went to visit a World Food Program warehouse.
This is a place that felt like a fortress, you know, high walls topped by barbed wire.
And I walked through that facility with the director, Josephine Mouly.
Josephine, so when you first started here two years ago, how many of these tents were full?
She showed me these 13 A-frame tents that normally would be full of food aid, and 12 of these 13 tents were empty.
So we're in the one tent that actually does have some supplies, and it's... We went inside this one tent that was full, and there were these brown cartons... Cardboard boxes stamped with the USAID logo and American flags...
They were full of Plumpy Nut, which is this peanut-rich nutrient paste that's fed to malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding moms.
And this was the last of it.
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