Trump official who helped dismantle USAID leaves role after ‘depriving millions’ of life-saving support Pete Marocco reportedly clashed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over extent of funding cuts The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025
Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts The Guardian - US · Apr 12, 2025
Millions of Afghans will be ‘abandoned’ to famine thanks to Trump’s aid cuts, warns UN World Food Programme says essential programmes to prevent malnutrition and death will not be possible unless Elon Musk-led USAID cuts are reversed The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2025
How US funding cuts are threatening South African families living with HIV Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled. Al Jazeera · Apr 11, 2025
The Chief Justice "Facilitates" Another Shadow Docket Compromise In Noem v. Garcia The Trump Administration didn't lose but it didn't quite win either. Reason · Apr 11, 2025
Trump tariff backflip brings a US trade war with China into the crosshairs You have to marvel at Donald Trump’s prescience. After his announcement of America’s new tariffs regime on April 2, “liberation day”, the stock markets plummeted, causing faint hearts around the world to quail. Nerves fluttered particularly hard when bond yields started to rise rapidly this week, suggesting a growing lack… The Conversation · Apr 10, 2025
USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan The day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his incoming administration abruptly paused the work of USAID, while also claiming that it would preserve USAID’s “lifesaving and strategic aid programming”. These dramatic, overnight cuts were an unprecedented – and deadly – experiment in relation to aid spending which will have a… The Conversation · Apr 10, 2025
US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions need it United Nations officials say the Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations while maintaining them in Afghanistan and Yemen The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2025
Why USAID is such a critical piece of the global climate aid puzzle – and what happens next as it is cut CLIMATE ANALYSIS: As development projects battle over which is the most ‘life-saving’ in order to secure the dregs of US aid funding, climate action is likely to be deemed lowest priority, writes Nick Ferris The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2025
Trump Administration Reinstates Some Foreign Aid Programs After WFP Warns Of Deadly Consequences: Report Sources with knowledge of the matter said Jeremy Lewin, the acting deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), instructed the staff Tuesday to reverse the termination of multiple foreign aid programs. International Business Times · Apr 9, 2025
South Sudanese children die as US aid cuts shutter medical services: NGO US aid cuts force South Sudanese clinics to close, leaving cholera patients dead on a desperate trek for medical care. Al Jazeera · Apr 9, 2025
‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cut The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2025
Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs by mistake The State Department says it's rolled back some of its sweeping funding cuts to U.N. World Food Program emergency projects in 14 impoverished countries The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025
As a future of US foreign aid cuts comes into focus, so do efforts to respond The reality of the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. foreign assistance are sinking in within the field of international development The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025
Euronews · Apr 8, 2025 Latest US cuts to emergency food schemes 'a death sentence' for millions, UN warns The World Food Programme said that the Trump administration had axed funding for life-saving schemes in 14 impoverished countries — despite previously pledging to spare vital aid.
The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025 Trump administration ends some USAID contracts providing lifesaving aid, officials say The Trump administration has notified the World Food Program and other partners that it’s terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs across the Middle East, a U.S. and U.N. official told The Associated Press
The Conversation · Apr 7, 2025 Why Donald Trump’s decision to slash USAID is hurting American soft power and making the world less safe The Trump administration’s foreign policy has raised alarms. It seems to have shifted America away from its traditional Nato allies, favouring instead a closer relationship with Russia. There has also been talk of plans to control Greenland, the Panama Canal – possibly even Canada. This has caused sleepless nights for…
Radio France Internationale · Apr 7, 2025 US aid freeze halts Malawi’s top science programme, disrupting research Just over a year after the US government, through the agency USAID, introduced a five-year, $17 million initiative to strengthen higher education in Malawi through science projects, the programme has been abruptly closed, disrupting research and innovation, one of the affected universities has confirmed.
The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2025 A woman dies every two minutes due to failures in maternal care, shocking new figures reveal SPECIAL REPORT: More than a quarter of a million women around the world died during their pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth in 2023, WHO figures reveal. Rebecca Thomas and Alicja Hagopian report
The Conversation · Apr 6, 2025 With Trump in power, the world must fight the new culture of intimidation The world is in the midst of one of the most serious political crises since the end of the Second World War.
Al Jazeera · Apr 6, 2025 Rains add to misery in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises to 3,471 UN says ‘traumatised and fearful’ survivors in Myanmar are in need of food, water and shelter.
The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2025 In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings
Salon · Apr 3, 2025 USAID cuts expose Americans to crime In slashing the USAID budget, President Donald Trump defunded one of the leading international criminal watchdogs
The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025 Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced to close