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Bill Gates plans to shut down his foundation
World’s richest person Bill Gates has said President Donald Trump’s cuts to US Agency for International Development (USAID) will cause children’s deaths to increase. “Over the next few years, which over the next few years should have gone from five million to four million – now, unless there’s a big reversal, we’ll probably go from…
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The Gutting of the US Agency for International Development will have a big effect on the fight against climate change
The US Agency for international Development (AIDA) has ordered all nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that receive funding from it to stop working. AIDA, which delivers humanitarian aid, economic development funding around the world, had been shut down by President Donald Trump as part of a broad effort to cut government spending.
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Trump and Musk are tearing apart the government
The US Agency for International Development (USCISID) has shut down its website, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Famine Early Warning System Network (Famine early warning system). This comes after Elon Musk, who has been waging a campaign against USCISID, called it a “criminal organisation”. He said he and…
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DC is waking up to the fact that there is a takeover going on
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday tweeted that he and his allies have spent the weekend feeding the US Agency for International Development into the “wood”. The US-based agency was founded by then-US President Bill Clinton to support African-American and South African organizations during the apartheid era. Commenting on this, a Twitter user wrote, “We’re…
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The Trump administration wants to remove people from overseas posts by this weekend
The US has reportedly started withdrawing its Agency for International Development (USAID) personnel who’re stationed overseas. Many employees at USAID have been locked out of their work phone and email accounts and put on leave in recent days, WIRED reported. This comes after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would review USAID’s activities…
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The State Department is sending overseas staffers home
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) agents have been stationed at the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development since last week. Musk took to Instagram to reveal that he spent the weekend feeding USAID “into the wood”. Earlier this week, DOGE agents had cut off staff email accounts on aRandom basis after…
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Why did the website disappear?
The website of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has gone down following President Donald Trump’s executive order on reevaluating and realigning United States Foreign Aid. “Implementing the President’s Executive Order on Re evaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” the agency’s website stated. In the first two weeks of his administration, the Trump…
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There is a U.S. aid freeze hitting secret girls’ schools
US State Department’s website has a new page about the Agency for International Development ( USAID), which is responsible for funding aid projects around the world and managing over 40 billion in federal spending in coming year. There are seven items on this USAID section, a drastic reduction of the reports and information on the…
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The anti- HIV program, PEPFAR, faces a loss of funds
Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk, a former US Agency for International Development official, has said that the State Department’s 90-day freeze on US aid programmes is having dire impacts for the entire global aid system. “It’s going to endanger millions of people that are on US-funded HIV/AIDS treatment and will mean an abrupt halt to…
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The opinion says that farmer solidarity is universal from the US to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Groysman said his country has received over 300 tonnes of grain from the US to help farmers clear their fields of mines amid a conflict with Russia in Eastern Ukraine. The shipments are being provided by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the US’ Grain for Food Aid…