{"id":1493,"date":"2025-07-16T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:14:27","slug":"aid-cuts-leave-a-million-facing-starvation-in-nigeria-as-food-supplies-run-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/aid-cuts-leave-a-million-facing-starvation-in-nigeria-as-food-supplies-run-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria \u2013 as food supplies run out"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"articleHeader\" class=\"sc-qvufca-6 kZQexU sc-mqbe6u-3 kFNaRc\">\n<div class=\"sc-qvufca-1 hYTnrH\">\n<div class=\"sc-qvufca-0\">\n<p><em><strong>Huge cuts to international aid \u2013 alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change \u2013 are creating a humanitarian crisis across Nigeria and its neighbours. Now, the UN\u2019s food charity has warned that supplies of food are set to run out next month.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 fCJzvY\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/41\/GettyImages-2170486517.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/41\/GettyImages-2170486517.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=360&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 360w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/41\/GettyImages-2170486517.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=768&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 768w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/41\/GettyImages-2170486517.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=1000&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 1000w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/41\/GettyImages-2170486517.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=1250&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 1250w\" alt=\"Residents carry their salvaged belongings on a motorcycle in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria\" data-hero=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>Residents carry their salvaged belongings on a motorcycle in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(AFP\/Getty)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"sc-1fcmxs3-1 sc-1i4xxi7-1 jNLXfg jBkNwU\">\n<div class=\"sc-fwko30-1 bYBoJE main-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"sc-jbiisr-0 gryCYY sc-jbiisr-1\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyBreakingNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM dRzeRr\"><strong>For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"big-letter\">T<\/span>he World Food Programme (WFP) is set to run out of food in Nigeria this month following crippling aid cuts, with more than a million people now at risk of starvation, <em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>In April, President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security in the country, while in June, a report from the WFP and UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned\u00a0that 30.6m people in the country were now facing food crisis or acute food insecurity, and 5.4 million children were acutely malnourished, as a result of intensifying conflict, economic challenges and climate change impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the WFP \u2013 the UN agency that is widely seen as the last line of defence against starvation \u2013 is saying that it no longer has the funds to continue its operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only have resources to go on until this month, and the way things are looking, people are at risk of starvation,\u201d says WFP Nigeria spokesperson Chi Lael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have any contingency. We don\u2019t have any carry-over. We are using all the money we have, which takes us to July,\u201d she adds. \u201cOur office is completely stunned right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lael, who has worked for WFP since 2018, said that the current crisis is different to the \u201cpeaks and troughs in funding cycles\u201d that are typical in humanitarian organisations. \u201cThere really is no plan for anyone to step in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kjxh8j-0 eaZync\"><\/div>\n<p>Some 1.3 million people will receive food assistance this month from WFP, but from the start of August, that total is set to fall to zero. WFP\u2019s network of life-saving nutrition treatment clinics are also all set to close, starting with 150 clinics closing in July, which will lead to the immediate cessation of malnourishment treatment for 300,000 children.<\/p>\n<p>While a lifeline to many, WFP has already in recent months been able to only support a fraction of those in need of food support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1pfx6hk-0 iuSLhZ sc-w27hnf-0 jaiOuh\">\n<div id=\"mpu2\" class=\"sc-1pfx6hk-2 kMyVEL\" data-mpu=\"true\" data-is-video=\"false\" data-tile-name=\"mpu2\" data-ad-unit-path=\"\/71347885\/_main_independent\/mpu2\" data-size-key=\"SINGLE_MPU_ARTICLE\" data-refresh-check=\"false\" data-refresh-ms=\"35000\" data-initialised=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/71347885\/_main_independent\/mpu2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A malnutrition analysis released earlier this year by the IPC, a UN-backed food insecurity classification system, found that from May 2024 to April 2025, only 20 per cent of malnourished children in the country were receiving necessary treatment, with malnourishment already contributing to 45 per cent of all deaths of children under five.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lael, WFP closing its operations in the country would result in people either staying put and risking starvation, leaving their homes and moving to other regions with likely no better prospects, or submitting to Boko Haram, the terrorist group that has been driving an armed insurgency in the country\u2019s North since 2009. \u201cAll of these are horrible options,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kjxh8j-0 eaZync\"><\/div>\n<p>The Trump Administration terminated more than 80 per cent of aid contracts run by USAID, which until this year had been a major humanitarian provider in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Before contracts were terminated, USAID provided just under 50 per cent of WFP Nigeria\u2019s funding \u2013 although Lael says the issues they are facing have been building for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>Khatija Nxedlana, Nigeria country spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, concurs that aid cuts are not a new phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last couple of years, we have seen less and less money coming in, and organisations have been reshaping and refocusing their priorities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>But the immediate termination of programmes under Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE Programme \u2013 which included close to $200m of cuts\u00a0in Nigeria \u2013 caused chaos at humanitarian agencies and prevented them from being able to continue prioritising resources.<\/p>\n<p>The news from Nigeria also comes as a new research\u00a0published in the Lancet this week found that US cuts to humanitarian aid under President Trump could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, with children representing a third of those at risk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 fCJzvY\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/15\/GettyImages-2170773675.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/15\/GettyImages-2170773675.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/15\/GettyImages-2170773675.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"People affected by floods are escorted through flood water on a military boat in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria, last year\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>People affected by floods are escorted through flood water on a military boat in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria, last year<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(AFP\/Getty)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 kypwor\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/51\/GettyImages-2170486225.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/51\/GettyImages-2170486225.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/03\/14\/51\/GettyImages-2170486225.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Houses submerged under water in Maiduguri last year\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>Houses submerged under water in Maiduguri last year<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(AFP\/Getty)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Away from the wealth and glamour of the coastal commercial centre Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s food crisis is centred on the country\u2019s Northern districts.<\/p>\n<p>A key driver of the crisis is the ever-more volatile rain patterns driven by the climate crisis. Weather reports from early June, for example, warn\u00a0of below-average rainfall forecasts for certain central and northern food-growing areas of the country, which are set to result in crop production shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>But even more devastating than drought in recent years has been the impact of flooding, which had devastating impacts in 2022, 2024, and now also in 2025, with at least 700 people believed to have died from flood in the town of Mokwa in Niger State at the end of May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kjxh8j-0 eaZync\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, everyone said: We have not seen rains like this in a decade. Then in 2024, they said: We have not had rains like this in 30 years. And this year, Niger State has seen its worst floods in 60 years,\u201d says Lael. \u201cIt\u2019s like the rainy season has just become the flooding season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These floods wash away farmlands and infrastructure, leaving nothing in their place. \u201cAnd the problem now is that there\u2019s no recovery time,\u201d adds Lael. \u201cA year is not enough time to rebuild entire communities and get everybody back onto their farms.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kk992l-0 dDVXDN\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The volatile Lake Chad Basin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Much of Nigeria\u2019s most climate-vulnerable population lives in the Borno, Yobe, and Gombo states in the country\u2019s North East, which in turn form part of the Lake Chad Basin, a fertile region spread over Niger, Cameroon and Chad, and which centres on the famous lake.<\/p>\n<p>The region has been effectively in a state of constant humanitarian crisis for more than a decade, with at least three million internally displaced people (IDPs) across the basin at the moment, according to figures\u00a0cited by OCHA, the UN humanitarian agency.<\/p>\n<p>A poster child for environmental degradation for much of the Twentieth Century, Lake Chad lost 90 per cent of its surface area in the 1970s and 80s as a result of reduced rainfall and poor land management practices \u2013 though the water level has since stabilised, and an estimated three million people\u00a0continue to live off the fish stocks and farmlands of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding is now the key climatic risk of the region, after extreme droughts of the 1970s and 80s baked soils hard and left them impermeable. The floods of 2022 and 2024, for example, displaced millions across the four countries, and inundated agricultural land.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 fcVRZz\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/10\/29\/18\/GettyImages-1068301504.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/10\/29\/18\/GettyImages-1068301504.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/10\/29\/18\/GettyImages-1068301504.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"A Chadian fisherman shows of his catch on the banks of Lake Chad\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>A Chadian fisherman shows of his catch on the banks of Lake Chad<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Boko Haram continues to cause terror in the towns and villages around the lake, with reports of an uptick in violence in Northeastern Nigeria in recent months, after several years of waning attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of June 21, for example, a woman who had been hiding an improvised explosive device under her hijab reportedly killed at least 12 people after detonating it in a crowded fish market in the town of Konduga, in Nigeria\u2019s Borno state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are really vicious attacks, and people are living in fear,\u201d says Lael. \u201cYou\u2019re in a marketplace, and you just do not know if the person next to you is carrying a bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 ijpiah\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/10\/06\/Lake-Chad.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/10\/06\/Lake-Chad.png?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/10\/06\/Lake-Chad.png?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Lake Chad exists on the border between Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>Lake Chad exists on the border between Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(Google Earth)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Humanitarian experts in countries across the Lake Chad region that have been interviewed by\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0are warning that this crisis risks being forgotten as more high profile crises take the media spotlight \u2013 just as aid cuts put an already-delicate situation under ever greater stress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lake Chad Basin feels like a forgotten crisis, and with people not only forgetting that people are in dire need, but also that Nigeria\u2019s stability is crucial for regional stability,\u201d says Lael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a sense that Lake Chad has not been very attractive to international funders, and the aid cuts are only making that worse,\u201d adds Eugene Nforngwa, the programme director at the Africa Coalition for Sustainable Energy and Access, who is based in the Cameroon capital Yaound\u00e9. \u201cCountries like the US, UK and the EU have prioritised other crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kjxh8j-0 eaZync\"><\/div>\n<p>Nforngwa also confirms that Cameroon \u2013 which has an estimated 3.3million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance \u2013 is facing similar impacts following cuts to humanitarian aid, particularly from the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgrammes have shrunk, facilities have closed, and many staff have lost their jobs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe now have a large number of organisations competing for a very small pool of funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the border in Chad, meanwhile, there have also been major cuts, with one source in the region telling\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0that the human rights agency UNHCR has been dealing with a 40 per cent cut to its budget this year, despite the fact that there has been an influx of refugees from Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the climate front, sometimes there is a lack of rain, and at other times there is too much rain,\u201d says Augustin Zusanne, a Chad-based analyst at the UN humanitarian agency OCHA. \u201cThere also continues to be a major security threat from Boko Haram around Lake Chad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OCHA\u2019s humanitarian response plan for Chad \u2013 which represents the total amount of money required to meet the country\u2019s humanitarian needs \u2013 is currently 11 per cent funded. Normally at this time in the year, it is 20-30 per cent funded, says Zusanne.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a conference organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development in London last week, Chad\u2019s environment minister Bakhit Djamous Hassan gave his assessment of the country\u2019s humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur communities awake to a triple challenge, the devastating effects of climate change, ongoing insecurity and growing humanitarian needs,\u201d he said. \u201c\u201cWe are facing rampant desertification, preparing droughts followed by devastating flooded floods, all while hosting over a million refugees and internally displaced persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis convergence of crisis is not just statistical, it is the lived reality of millions struggling to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-kk992l-0 dDVXDN\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Families on the front line<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in Nigeria, humanitarian workers report a feeling of fatigue among the victims of a humanitarian crisis that has now been dragging on for many years \u2013 and particularly so among the country\u2019s 3.7m internally-displaced people (IDPs), of whom more than half live in the Northeastern Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in the Northeast have been impacted by Boko Haram violence for 15 years now,\u201d says Lael. \u201cMany are living in IDP camps, but even if not they will likely be topping up whatever they are able to farm with food assistance. And they are quite literally physically and emotionally exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are people like 40-year-old Murka, who is the sole breadwinner for her 10 children and her missing husband\u2019s mother and father, and who has been receiving food aid assistance from WFP for just over five year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WFP food ration only lasts us for 15 days and after that we start struggling again,\u201d she told WFP in a recent fact-finding mission. \u201cSometimes I don&#8217;t eat just to ensure that I feed my husband&#8217;s elderly parents and my children.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-0 gRwzuf\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/37\/WF1144843.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/37\/WF1144843.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/37\/WF1144843.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Murka, 40, a displaced mother of 10, stands outside her home in Yobe State, Nigeria\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\"><em>Murka, 40, a displaced mother of 10, stands outside her home in Yobe State, Nigeria<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(WFP\/Arete\/Damilola Onafuwa)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-482ou5-2 hmmOgn sc-482ou5-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<h6 class=\"sc-482ou5-0 gRwzuf\" data-gallery-length=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/07\/WF1144774.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/07\/WF1144774.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/07\/04\/8\/07\/WF1144774.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Ya Kaka, 25 holds her baby Binta, who is currently in receipt of malnutrition support from WFP Nigeria\" \/><em>Ya Kaka, 25 holds her baby Binta, who is currently in receipt of malnutrition support from WFP Nigeria<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 CXMrn\">\u00a0(WFP\/Arete\/Damilola Onafuwa)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>25-year-old Yagana Bukar, who lives in Borno State with her four children, described similar hardships around not always having enough food, despite WFP\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have water, which I put water on fire that keeps boiling just to keep assuring the children that food will soon be ready till they fall asleep,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>On the same mission, WFP also spoke to Ya Kaka, who receives malnutrition treatment for her eight-month-old baby. The 25-year-old described how she had been kidnapped by an armed group when she was 18 years old, married off to one of the fighters, and forced to have a child, before later escaping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m hoping and praying to God to take away all my pains,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to forget all I&#8217;ve gone through or all that I&#8217;m always thinking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even with WFP and other aid organisations offering their support, it can be hard for people to plan the future. A recent report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre describes the phenomenon of how, even after flood waters retreat, IDPs are simply \u201cstaying in the camp\u201d as they feel unable to pick their lives back up as a result of the persistant challenges.<\/p>\n<p>For such people, it is often the case that \u201cthe only hope they can find in their lives\u201d comes in the form of food assistance, says Lael. With that now under threat, the hopes of ever tackling the crisis around the Lake Chad basin look ever more remote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1fcmxs3-1 sc-1i4xxi7-1 jNLXfg jBkNwU\">\n<div class=\"sc-fwko30-1 bYBoJE main-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"sc-hmnszx-0 kpuCQx height-limited\">\n<div class=\"sc-18u3r6t-1 brTiCh viafoura\">\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"region\" data-test=\"vf-conversations-root-element\" aria-label=\"Conversation\">\n<section class=\"vf-body-text--deprecated vf-is-logged-out\" data-v-01d92e64=\"\" data-vf-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"vf3-comments vf3-comments__last-child-no-ad\" data-v-01d92e64=\"\">\n<article class=\"vf-tabbed-views vf3-comments__tabbed-nav\" data-v-215377dc=\"\" data-v-01d92e64=\"\">\n<section id=\"all__panel_4\" role=\"tabpanel\" data-v-215377dc=\"\" aria-labelledby=\"all__button_4\">\n<div class=\"all-comments-container\" data-v-01d92e64=\"\">\n<div class=\"all-comments\" data-v-75e8b8fb=\"\" 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