Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has shut down Save the Children and 14 other non-governmental organizations in the country, according to a decree.
Ortega has acted increasingly authoritarian since he returned to power in 2007, and his government has shut down more than 5,000 individual organizations since 2018 in crackdowns on dissent.
The Ministry of the Interior claims that Save the Children, which operates in over 100 countries, itself has requested to be dissolved.
The organization's branch operating in Latin America and the Caribbean declines to comment on the shutdown.
The government had previously shut down the Canadian branch of Save the Children's operations in Nicaragua.
