A look inside Somalia, where USAID cuts have life-or-death consequences
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[0:00] Trump administration started sharply
[0:01] cutting U.S. foreign aid last year, we've
[0:04] reported on the consequences around
[0:05] the world. And nowhere are those consequences
[0:08] more apparent than in Somalia.
[0:10] After decades of conflict and
[0:12] repeated climate disasters, millions
[0:14] of Somalis depend on
[0:15] humanitarian assistance, much of it previously funded by
[0:18] the U.S.
[0:19] And now that lifeline
[0:20] is disappearing. In the first
[0:22] of two reports from Somalia produced
[0:24] in partnership with the Pulitzer Center,
[0:27] special
[0:27] correspondent Neha
[0:28] Wadaker and filmmaker Ed Ram show us
[0:31] what those cuts mean for some of the world's
[0:32] most vulnerable people.
[0:37] Barely hanging on.
[0:39] Born two months early, Maleed
[0:41] is trying to survive. He
[0:43] has been living outdoors here in
[0:44] the blistering heat on the outskirts
[0:47] of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu,
[0:49] for 25 days.
[0:52] His mother,
[0:53] Isho Awais Mohamed, and her three
[0:55] youngest children
[0:56] fled here from
[0:57] southern Somalia.
[0:59] Maleed was born on the journey.
[1:04] They are among
[1:05] thousands here. Mostly women
[1:07] and children. Who have been forced to
[1:09] flee their homes by a devastating mix
[1:11] of conflict, drought,
[1:13] and flooding. The displaced
[1:15] have nowhere to go.
[1:19] I live off
[1:19] people's goodwill, she tells us. I
[1:21] only have whatever they bring me.
[1:25] But
[1:25] it's barely enough.
[1:27] Isho said she's eatin