NewsKPBS Public MediaAugust 31, 2026San Diego
State Department to resume FEWS NET famine reporting for Somalia, Afghanistan, and Yemen in September
The State Department announced it will resume publishing famine risk data for Somalia, Afghanistan, and Yemen in September after a pause that saw these countries removed from key food assistance outlook reports. The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) had stopped updating data for these regions, a move critics argue obscured the humanitarian impact of recent U.S. funding cuts.
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The resumption of this data is critical for international aid groups that rely on 's predictive modeling to preposition food supplies and target relief for millions facing acute hunger in conflict-affected regions.
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organizationFEWS NET“U.S. famine warning system.”personMukhtar Sirat Mahdi“Aid worker in Somalia.”organizationUSAID“Former agency that funded FEWS NET.”organizationState Department“Announced the resumption of data reporting.”personChenoa Sankar“Epidemiologist for Doctors Without Borders.”personJeremy Konyndyk“Criticized the pause in famine reporting.”personMichelle Jurkovich“Expert on food aid policy.”personColin Thomas-Jensen“Expert on humanitarian aid.”organizationRockefeller Foundation“Spoke out against the reporting pause.”organizationUNICEF“Reported on clinic closures.”organizationDoctors Without Borders“Reported on malnutrition in Somalia.”