The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

However, officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), aid groups, and health workers in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States told Reuters they were unclear what the waiver meant for their work or if it was in effect a full reversal of previous orders telling them to stop work immediately.

Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on January 29 if and how they could resume work after the United States issued a waiver for “life-saving” assistance in President Donald Trump’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid.

Suspension impacts 5 energy, 4 economic growth, and 5 agri programmes, several others in education and health in Pakistan.

Mr Trump has paused development assistance from USAid for 90 days to assess compatibility with his "America First" policy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Trump has issued an executive order for a 90-day pause in all foreign aid including food aid while the administration undertakes an evaluation of the programs. In the executive order, Trump wrote,

Trump’s foreign aid freeze “undermines American leadership and credibility around the world,” lawmakers tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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