Mozambique: After U.S. Funding Cuts, Mozambican Children Died – Who Bears Responsibility?

Both the US and Mozambican governments have failed

Last month, Spotlight and GroundUp published a two-part exposé showing how US aid cuts led to the deaths of children in Mozambique. Here, Jesse Copelyn considers what led to this tragedy and who should bear responsibility for it.

After the US Agency for International Development (USAID) abruptly terminated billions of dollars’ worth of overseas aid grants, the health system in central Mozambique was left in tatters. Earlier this year, I…