A USAID official escaped violence in Congo. He returned home to a different crisis
USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon ...
National Catholic Reporter3d
As White House considers abandoning foreign aid, faith groups say they can't do it alone
At a meeting that took place Feb. 28, Peter Marocco, the deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International ...
CounterPunch4h
Soft Power Divide: China Advances While the US Retreats
The global landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, a tectonic shift in the balance of influence. The sixth annual Global Soft Power Index, ...
New Vision4d
Rubio says US cancelling 83 percent of USAID programs
USAID distributes US humanitarian aid around the world, with health and emergency programs in around 120 countries. The State Department, which oversees USAID, had announced on February 26 its ...
The Independent2d
Suspension of USAID funding by Trump administration likely violated Constitution, judge says
open image in gallery A federal judge has re-ordered the Trump administration to pay out its contracts with foreign aid partners – the latest in the USAID legal saga (AFP via Getty Images ...
US foreign aid cuts leave a funding gap that private donors are unlikely to fill
Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to other private and public donors now that the Trump administration has suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.
The Bulwark1d
Our Brave President Goes to War with [Checks Notes] Ontario
That was a big-time win, to hear the administration tell it: “President Trump has once again used the leverage of the American economy, which is the best and biggest in the world, to deliver a win for ...
Rubio: 83 percent of USAID programs to be canceled
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that 83 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) ...
"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children
In the wake of USAID’s shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those familiar with USAID’s work have ...
Marco Rubio says most USAID programs are now dead
Marco Rubio confirmed USAID's drastic reduction, with 83% of programs cut and the remaining duties integrated into the State ...
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the U.S. Agency ...