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Whatever happened to the U.S. famine alert system that Trump shut down, then reopened

NPR News·August 31, 2026·1 min read

The U.S. famine alert system FEWS NET stopped posting data on Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen, then will resume in September. The back-and-forth follows the Trump administration's shutdown and reopening of the network, which monitors food insecurity worldwide. The pause raised concerns about hunger warnings going unheeded.

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