On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14169, imposing a 90‑day freeze on nearly all U.S. foreign ...
Catherine Nzuki is joined by Andrew Friedman, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Human Rights Initiative. They discuss the scale of USAID’s work around the world, the immediate impacts of this aid freeze, ...
South African NGOs and HIV programs are counting the cost of US President Donald Trump's freeze on US aid. Trump recently announced there would be a freeze on the President's Emergency Plan for Aids ...
The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision to cut U.S. foreign assistance to Africa happened almost instantly: “Stop-work” orders froze lifesaving health programs and medical research projects ...
DAKAR: US President Donald Trump's decision last year to abruptly dissolve the US Agency for International Development — once ...
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“US puts Nigeria on watchlist, threatens to freeze 50% of aid in new bill.” Business Insider, May 1, 2026.When late Lee Kwan Yew, Singapore’s transformational Prime Minister announced early in the ...
When the Trump administration made massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid last year, Dr. Manenji Mangundu, director of Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thought other countries would step in to ...
The global economy is under a cloud of uncertainty. Trade disruptions, wars, aid retrenchment, and geopolitical realignment have forced governments and investors to reassess risk. Africa is often ...
You might think that Africa would be in the midst of a crisis. The four largest donors all cut their aid spending in Africa last year, according to initial data. America slapped some of its highest ...