Latest News for: usaid

Edit

‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all ...

The Guardian 24 Dec 2025
Doing good gets you killed in Sudan ... Each morningshe secretly crossed the shifting frontline of Sudan’s North Kordofan state ... ....
Edit

Money Talks: Saving Lives Without USAID

Slate 23 Dec 2025
Mary Childs learned about how places like ALIMA and Givewell are moving forward now that USAID is done ... .
Edit

The best of the long read in 2025

The Guardian 23 Dec 2025
Has he become a Kremlin apologist? ....
Edit

Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts

The Washington Post 22 Dec 2025
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews ... .
Edit

A radio station in Amsterdam is a lifeline for Sudan. After USAID cuts, it's faltering

National Public Radio 21 Dec 2025
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. (Image credit. Indy Scholtens for NPR) ....
Edit

Sweden and Germany slash aid budgets to focus on Ukraine and defence spending

The Guardian 21 Dec 2025
Echoing the dismantling of USAID, other countries are changing funding priorities and health and hunger programmes in Africa ...
Edit

Rubio Backs USAID Closure, Says Dire Warnings Proved Wrong

Sputnik 19 Dec 2025
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Friday that the decision to shut down the Agency for International Development (USAID) was the right move, and all predictions of negative consequences have not occurred ....
Edit

Rubio unloads on ‘alarmists,’ touts State Dept disaster response after USAID closure

Fox News 19 Dec 2025
Agency for International Development (USAID) were wrong, according to ... The move resulted in cuts for thousands of USAID employees.  Critics including Sen.
Edit

Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children's lives crushed by foreign aid cuts

Newsday 18 Dec 2025
UKHIYA, Bangladesh — In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none ... The school was closing ... Sign up.
Edit

Takeaways from the AP's report on the impact of aid cuts on Rohingya children in Bangladesh

Newsday 18 Dec 2025
Funding slashed ... But in January, Trump dubbed USAID wasteful and shut it down, despite the U.S ... Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement to Congress that “No one has died” because of the dissolution of USAID.Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter.
Edit

Wiles and Rubio in Vanity Fair : On USAID & PEPFAR

National Review 17 Dec 2025
If we can help turn a pandemic and culture around for the good, within reason, we want to do it ....
Edit

Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts

The Verge 17 Dec 2025
... solo actor" who had plunged the Trump administration into several unnecessary crises - including the shuttering of USAID, the United S ….
Edit

2 powers, 1 playbook: US-Chinese bureaucrats actually quite alike

Asiatimes 17 Dec 2025
The year 2025 has not been a great one for US-Chinese relations ... career bureaucrats ... Latest stories ... By contrast, the US abolished USAID earlier in 2025, slashed its foreign aid budget, and moved remaining staff members into the State Department ... ....
Edit

‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts

The Guardian 17 Dec 2025
The sudden stop work order on USAID in January 2025 sent shock waves around the world ... To many, the subsequent axing of 83% of USAID programmes seemed like pure ...
×