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US famine monitor offline amid Trump funding freeze

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Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was established after 1984 famine in Ethiopia .

System combines weather data and political analysis to predict drought and food insecurity globally.

It is credited with mitigating effects of a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa in 2016 .

President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign aid.

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