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While warehouses in the U.S. overflow with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (known as RUTFs), designed to treat severe malnutrition, children in places like South Sudan are going hungry.

Experts say the disruptions will result in more children dying from hunger. “Stock is running critically low,” Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit Action Against Hunger in South Sudan, tells WIRED. “People are going to die.”

The very existence of RUTFs is a secular miracle. Considered one of the greatest innovations in preventing deaths from hunger since they were invented in the 1990s. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

Since Donald Trump took office in January, foreign aid in the United States has been gutted beyond the point of recognition. On July 1, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially closed. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...