A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died

Yagana Usman gestures toward her infant twin's grave while holding her surviving son in her arms at the Fulatari camp for internally displaced persons in Borno, northeastern Nigeria, on Sept. 5, 2025. Hassan Abubakar Bukar

Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisions made thousands of miles away in Washington, DC.

Usman and her family are sheltering in a camp for displaced people in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, where the Boko Haram terror group first emerged.

During her eight years at Fulatari camp in the town of Dikwa – a refuge for those fleeing Boko Haram – six of her 13 children have died. Usman, 40, told CNN her mos