Trump Administration
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
Sui-Lee WeeDeclan Walsh and Farnaz Fassihi
Sui-Lee Wee reported from Bangkok, Declan Walsh from Nairobi and Farnaz Fassihi from New York.
In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down.
In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers.
In Ukraine, residents on the frontline of the war with Russia may be going without firewood in the middle of winter.
Some of the world’s most vulnerable populations are already feeling President Trump’s sudden cutoff of billions of dollars in American aid that helps fend off starvation, treats diseases and provides shelter for the displaced.
In a matter of days, Mr. Trump’s order to freeze nearly all U.S. foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised profound questions about America’s reliability and global standing.
“Everyone is freaking out,” Atif Mukhtar of the Emergency Response Rooms, a local volunteer group in the besieged Sudanese capital, Khartoum, said of the aid freeze.
Most of the soup kitchens that feed 816,000
people in Khartoum have shut down.
Organizations that provide maternal care,
vaccinations and firewood were forced
to suspend operations.
Patients were told to leave a
U.S.-funded refugee hospital
on the Myanmar border.
Ukraine
Europe
Atlantic
Ocean
Syria
Asia
Pacific
Ocean
Africa
Sudan
Ivory Coast
Thailand
Uganda
Indian
Ocean
Australia
A U.S. contractor that provides
security for a camp that holds
ISIS members and their families
was forced to halt operations.
Aid workers say about 40 newborns
contracted H.I.V. per day when the U.S.
stopped funding for antiretroviral drugs.
intelligence on Al Qaeda-related incidents has
been interrupted.
Most of the soup kitchens that feed 816,000
people in Khartoum have shut down.
Patients were told to leave a U.S.-funded
refugee hospital on the Myanmar border.
Organizations that provide maternal care, vaccinations
and firewood were forced to suspend operations.
Ukraine
Europe
North
America
Syria
Asia
Atlantic
Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
Africa
Sudan
Ivory Coast
Thailand
Uganda
Pacific
Ocean
Indian
Ocean
South
America
Australia
sensitive intelligence on Al Qaeda-related
incidents has been interrupted.
A U.S. contractor that provides security for
a camp holding ISIS members and their
families was forced to halt operations.
Aid workers say about 40 newborns contracted H.I.V. per day
when the U.S. stopped funding for antiretroviral drugs.
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