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Can the fight against AIDS recover?
The Bush Institute’s Eric Goosby has said that US’ President Donald Trump’s executive orders are likely to have an adverse effect on HIV policy reforms. However, he added, the US Congress needs to authorise PEPFAR for another five years so that the programme can complete its mission and so that countries, organisations and funders can…
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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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Why did the website disappear and why did Musk ask for it to die?
After US President Donald Trump said, “The US Agency for International Development needs to die”, Elon Musk tweeted that it “needs to die”. Meanwhile, reports claimed that two USAID security officials have been placed on leave after they reportedly refused access to confidential documents at the agency. According to reports, workers at the US Department…
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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 watchdog says Biden pushed the Gaza pier to warn it would undermine other aid routes
The US failed to honour commitments it had made with the UN to get it to take part in distribution of supplies from the pier into Palestinian hands, according to a report by USAID’s inspector-general. The UN World Food Program ended cooperation with the project after Israeli rescue operation used an area nearby to whisk…
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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…