The Latest Breaking News from USAid

Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa

Unprecedented cuts to the US government overseen by President Donald Trump's billionaire advisor Elon Musk are sending thousands of federal workers and contractors back to the labor market -- but experts warn that hiring is low at this time.

Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly US$2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of…

A deadline has been set for Monday to repay the amounts owed to at least nine aid groups that filed a lawsuit after President Donald Trump halted all U.S. foreign assistance.

Staff questioned on eccentric list of criteria that meet Trump administration’s new national security priorities

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile ceasefire, according to officials from the U.S. humanitarian agency

Democrats have denounced Trump’s proposal to close the department as placing added burdens on rural states and students.

The global community needs to ‘step up’ to prevent international spread, scientific community warns

U.S. programs supporting opposition activists, political prisoners and religious groups in countries controlled by authoritarian parties in Latin America have been halted