The Trump administration has deactivated the Famine Early Warning System Network after the State Department issued a “stop-work” order on all U.S. foreign assistance, with exceptions for some emergency food aid and military aid for Egypt and Israel. The monitoring program was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. More recently, it predicted the unfolding hunger crisis in Sudan, where fighting between rival military factions has plunged half the population — some 25 million people — into high levels of acute food insecurity.