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NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cuts The former international head of Doctors Without Borders says she was left “stunned” after New York University canceled her presentation because some of her slides discussing cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)…
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
U.S.A.I.D. While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act. By Hannah Beech and Edward Wong China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The…
USAID Funding Saved Millions of Children’s Lives. Recent Cuts Put It in Jeopardy
USAID Funding Saved Millions of Children’s Lives. Recent Cuts Put It in Jeopardy USAID investments significantly reduced deaths among children under age five and women of reproductive age, studies show By Tanya Lewis edited by Dean Visser Tigray people, fled due to conflicts and taking shelter in Mekelle city of the Tigray region, in northern…
The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs
By Fatma Tanis , Frank Langfitt The Trump administration is terminating thousands of USAID foreign assistance grants and awards, according to the State Department. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency. The announcement came just hours before a federal district court deadline for the Trump administration to restart payments on those grants. The government still…
Trump officials will put 4,700 USAID employees on leave and eliminate 1,600 jobs
By Fatma Tanis , Melody Schreiber The Trump administration is putting nearly all of USAID’s 4,700 full-time employees on paid administrative leave at midnight Sunday and will subsequently terminate 1,600 of those positions as part of a “reduction in force,” according to a memo that was widely distributed to agency staff Sunday afternoon and later…
Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn
As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say ‘everybody’s lost’ As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid…
Judge pauses Trump plan to put thousands of USAID staff on leave
A federal court has issued a “very limited” temporary order halting President Donald Trump’s plan to gut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The judge issued a restraining order that would block 2,200 employees from being put on administrative leave as was scheduled by midnight Friday. USAID employs about 10,000 people – two-thirds…
Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate Moscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of USAid, joining a chorus of strongman leaders declaring victory over an organisation they have long portrayed as a vehicle of American political interference. Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on…
USAID officials direct staff on ‘stunning and irresponsible’ cuts to jobs and offices
By Jenna McLaughlin , Fatma Tanis , Shannon Bond Amid global fallout over the blockage in funding and staffing for the United States Agency for International Development, senior staff submitted a list to State Department leadership of around 600 people whose work around the world they deemed essential and could not be disrupted. But Secretary…
As Elon Musk Dismantles USAID, Foreign Leaders Rejoice
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat. By Paul Sonne Reporting from Berlin When Elon Musk set about “feeding U.S.A.I.D. into the wood chipper,” as he put it, it wasn’t only supporters of President Trump’s “America First” agenda who were…
Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off Critical supplies of life-saving medicines have been blocked and children left without food and battling malnutrition as multiple effects were reported across the globe after Elon Musk resolved to…
Charities reeling from USAid freeze warn of ‘life or death’ effects
Abrupt order has done ‘serious damage’, say experts, with supply chains halted, HIV clinics struggling to source drugs and refugee camps facing loss of vital services Clinics in Uganda are scrambling to find new sources for vital HIV drugs, aid workers in Bangladesh fear refugee camp infrastructure will crumble, and mobile health units may have…