USAID’s closure, while painful and damaging, might give rise to a new arrangement beyond aid.
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Aid in contexts like Kakuma should not be treated as optional or discretionary, but as a structural necessity.
Nigeria needs to take full responsibility for its own security governance and counter-terrorism campaign without waiting for foreign handouts.
China is looking at how the Ukraine war could end, and working out just what place Beijing wants in a post-war world.
Waves of US troops and international peacekeeping forces have repeatedly failed to make Haiti more stable for more than 100 years.
On paper, Russia’s military outmatches its Ukrainian rival. But better training, strategy and battlefield decisions have helped Ukrainian forces keep Russian troops at bay.
The money is evenly split between military support and funds for economic, humanitarian and other needs.
Assistance that began when the Soviet Union collapsed has grown since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, in southern Ukraine, in 2014.
Low-income countries that sought to spend more on health care during the pandemic have been hit with ratings downgrades, while others avoided borrowing entirely.
Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
The market welcomed statements from the US Federal Reserve and the RBA, but there isn’t much to be happy about.
The proposed foreign aid cuts by US President Donald Trump will have a devastating impact on healthcare in Africa.
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