South Sudan Cholera Patients Died After Us Cut Aid, Charity Says

The UK-based charity blames the deaths on Trumps cuts which it says forced local services to close.

Save the Childrens South Sudan country directer, Christopher Nyamandi says, Generally, we are receiving less and less funding from all donors including the European donors, but the US funding generally was the more drastic because the implication was funding that we actually secured. Where we were actually implementing and delivering services and doing work, and we had to stop on those activities.

He added that there should be global moral outrage that the decisions made by powerful people in other countries have led to child deaths in just a matter of weeks.

Experts have warned the cuts including the cancellation of more than 90 of USAIDs contracts - could cost millions of lives in coming years due to malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.

The US State Department said it did not have information about the reported deaths.