Every day, hundreds crowd a nutrition center on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Babies’ cries fill the clinic while mothers hold them to their chests; lines stretch down hallways while doctors pass from one child to the next.
But over the weekend, U.S. funding for this center — one of 13 run by the Minnesota-based aid group Alight — came to an end, leaving care for over 200,000 Somalis hanging by a thread.
“I’m getting calls from these locations to find out what’s next, and what will happen,” said Adan Adar, Alight’s executive director for the Horn of Africa. “And I can’t tell them anything.”