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Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, and upheaval at USAID may slow it more.
A snapshot of the effect of the freeze in USAID on one part of Sudan.
US aid provided crucial support for humanitarian and development projects around the world.
USAID accounted for a third of Myanmar’s foreign aid last year. Now, this funding is gone as the country grapples with a devastating earthquake.
A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.
Three-quarters of Australia’s foreign assistance budget is flowing to the Indo-Pacific, showing a commitment to remaining a reliable partner as USAID cuts bite.
Media organisations in former Soviet states are beginning to feel the bite of US foreign funding cuts.
Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
Journalists in Ukraine already face financial uncertainty, exhaustion and risks to their safety. With USAID funding cuts, many outlets will now be forced out of business.
The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
The president’s apparent strategy is attempting to eliminate the agency on his own authority, while asking Congress to finish the job, an education expert writes.
Soft power is a foreign-policy tool to get what a country wants without using force.
Millions of people worldwide are likely to lose access to anti HIV drugs, and thousands more people could die, after the US cut project funding.
A US district judge says that the Trump administration has to pay USAID the billions it owes in already completed work. The Supreme Court agrees − for now.
USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.
Both major parties have an opportunity to clearly state they will preserve and even increase Australia’s overseas aid budget, after cuts by London and Washington.
Just weeks into his second term, Donald Trump has made huge decisions that have caused ripple effects around the world. And he shows no sign of stopping.
Legal experts are concerned that President Donald Trump is expanding executive powers beyond the law – creating what they call a constitutional crisis.
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