Pakistan, May 16 -- DIKWA, NIGERIA - A growing humanitarian crisis is unfolding in northeastern Nigeria, where USAID aid cuts have led to the deaths of malnourished children and forced the shutdown of critical health programs. In Dikwa, a town filled with displaced people, mothers like Yagana Bulama are mourning the loss of their children due to hunger and lack of medical support.

Bulama recently lost one of her infant twins just weeks after Mercy Corps ended a malnutrition treatment program funded by USAID. She had already lost triplets to hunger in the past and now fears for her surviving baby. "I don't want to bury another child," she said, describing the despair that grips many families across Borno state.

For years, USAID provided ...