While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among the first
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hen she woke on that Sunday morning, Fatima was part of a family preparing to celebrate – she was due to give birth to her third child any day and her brother was on his way home from Saudi Arabia to get married.
But by mid-afternoon, the family were instead preparing for a funeral – both Fatima and her baby were dead.
The family say they do not follow international news, but Fatima’s death can be directly traced back to decisions taken weeks earlier, thousands of miles away, in Washington DC.
