'Aggressive Resource Mobilization Needed To Mitigate Aid Cut'

Senior officials of the Africa Centers for Disease Control are holding meetings in the U.S. capital, Washington D.C., to discuss future collaboration between the U.S. government and the continental health body in light of funding cuts by the administration of President Donald Trump.

African countries with a fifth of their assistance coming from USAID, including South Sudan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia, will be particularly "exposed".

AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana reports...

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A mother sits with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter who was treated for malnutrition in a pediatric intensive care unit in Somalia (file photo)

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