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Voices: There’s one very good reason Trump should never win a Nobel prize

COMMENT: The Nobel committee has made some controversial choices in the past, but the president’s demolition of US climate and aid policies should rule him out whatever else he might achieve, writes Roger Harrabin

The Independent UK

US aid cuts deal a massive blow for the small African nation of Lesotho: Takeaways from AP's report

In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the tiny country of Lesotho in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents

The Independent UK

Trump’s aid cuts reverse decades of HIV progress in tiny African nation

With the single stroke of Trump’s pen, much of a system credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives was dismantled

The Independent UK

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The Mothers Taking On the Trump Administration

From birthright citizenship to healthcare bans, a wave of government policies has put families at risk. It has also galvanized a group of women to take a stand.

Marie Claire

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

The Guardian - UK

Tea farmers struggle to pay medical bills as the climate crisis impacts crop sizes

ON THE GROUND: As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, Kenyan tea farmers supplying the UK tell Nick Ferris that extreme weather is bringing new health problems – which they are struggling to deal with as declining production impacts their income

The Independent UK

America will see its largest mass resignation in history as 100,000 federal workers are set to quit their jobs today

About 150,000 workers took the Trump administration’s resignation deal. The mass resignation is in stark contrast to white-collar employees who are “job-hugging."

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Trump’s aid cuts bring fresh hate for young people with HIV in Kenya: ‘It takes little to push people back’

IN FOCUS: The slashing of foreign aid and closure of HIV programmes earlier this year is continuing to impact people living with HIV, writes Nick Ferris in Nairobi, causing serious damage to long-term efforts to end stigma around HIV and its treatment

The Independent UK

Health authorities sound the alarm as 35 deaths linked to new Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organisation says 57 cases have been reported since the outbreak was declared on September 4

The Independent UK

Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries

Mobile clinics in rural Malawi that provided pregnancy checks as well as vaccinations and TB tests have been lost

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates calls on Congress to ‘show its values’ on foreign aid, or this year will see children’s deaths go up instead of down

Gates is putting his money where his mouth is: He said he will give away “virtually all of my wealth”—some $100 billion—which will be deployed to cure diseases in the poorest countries.

Fortune

Trump’s aid cuts leave the Philippines more exposed to powerful cyclones like Typhoon Ragasa

Philippine NGO the Centre for Disaster Preparedness tells The Independent how its programmes to help people prepare for storms have been devastated by the closure of the United States Agency for International Development

The Independent UK

Legal groups resist Trump authoritarian moves with pro bono work

Groups of lawyers battling to get clients’ jobs back, avoid prosecutions or recoup money that has been illegally blocked

The Guardian - US

Other Australian preaching to mend plight of children

An Australian pastor known for helping kids on the street is one of three faith envoys chosen to spread the word about helping children in famine and war.

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Roll Call

House panel backs sweeping State Department overhaul package - Roll Call

A committee advances bills that would mark the first top-to-bottom State Department reauthorization in more than two decades.

The Independent UK

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this African city is still rising

WORLD OF TROUBLE: People fleeing the rising waters around Lake Tanganyika in Burundi are fighting for space and humanitarian care with refugees escaping civil war. Donald Trump’s slashing of international aid money has made a dangerous situation even more perilous. World affairs editor Sam Kiley investigates

The Independent UK

How deadly conflict and climate crisis left the ‘food basket of Nigeria’ a humanitarian disaster zone

IN FOCUS: Two million people have been left forced from their homes by conflict between herders and farmers that has seen thousands killed and many more left malnourished, writes Nick Ferris

We Got This Covered

Donald Trump accused of deliberately dismantling prosecution of sexual abusers and ‘abandoning survivors’

Allegations aside, it is weird how Trump is always helping criminals.

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The Guardian - US

Top Democrat accuses Trump of dismantling efforts to prosecute sex crimes

Exclusive: amid demands for transparency around Epstein, president has repeatedly taken side of criminal sex predators, says Jamie Raskin

The Independent UK

How Mpox revealed an epidemic of untreated HIV in Sierra Leone – as Trump’s aid cuts begin to bite

IN DEPTH: The impact of the US slashing foreign aid on the country’s Mpox response has likely been huge, activists on the ground tell Rachel Schraer

The Independent UK

Wildfires are blazing across Africa – but leaders like Trump are turning away

SPECIAL REPORT: While European countries band together to help tackle devastating fires, Africa is being left on its own, writes Nick Ferris. All despite the fact that blazes in Africa cause far greater damage

The Independent UK

Trump administration destroys $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID for low-income countries

The Trump administration reportedly had offers to buy the contraceptives at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer, which it did not accept

The Independent UK

Trump’s US aid cuts could cause more than two million extra TB deaths in five years, study warns

America contributed at least 55 per cent of external funding for global TB programmes at the end of 2024, but losing this could result in an extra 10 million cases worldwide

The Guardian - US

US supreme court clears way for Trump to withhold $5bn in foreign aid

Trump had stopped foreign aid funds by use of ‘pocket rescission’; aid groups now have until Friday to respond

The Independent UK

Trump gets big Supreme Court win and is allowed to freeze billions in foreign aid — for now

Government lawyers claimed unfreezing aid poses ‘grave and urgent threat’ to the presidency

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