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May 2024

  • Palestinians, including children, line up for aid in Deir al-Balah amid Ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza

    Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war

  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

October 2023

  • African children playing outside in an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya

    US Aids fund: What is the Pepfar fight and what does it mean for Africa?

    The emergency plan for Aids relief has become caught up in the politics of abortion rights, with far-reaching implications

August 2023

  • A US congressional delegations visit the Solomon Islands. Prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has declined a request to meet with members of the United States select committee on China.

    Pacific project
    US delegate says Solomon Islands PM was too ‘busy’ to meet him

    Congressman Neal Dunn, part of select committee on competition with China, says failure to meet Manasseh Sogavare was a ‘missed opportunity’

July 2023

  • Samantha Power in Kyiv on Monday

    USAid chief accuses Putin of ‘reckless’ exit from Ukraine grain deal

    Putin’s justification full of ‘lies’, says Samantha Power, as Russia warns of ‘risks’ to ships exporting grain

June 2023

  • Tigrayan women roast coffee beans over a wood stove

    ‘We blame government and aid agencies’: Ethiopia food relief thefts leave those in need with nothing

    Hunger-related deaths have risen since grain deliveries stopped after a nationwide scheme to steal supplies was exposed

April 2023

  • Children carry a bucket of water in Khartoum

    Sudan unrest: evacuations intensify as US warns of humanitarian crisis

    US agency sends in disaster response teams as western nations pull diplomats and citizens out of strife-torn country

May 2021

  • The hackers used an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development

    Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies

    Microsoft says group targeted more than 15o American and foreign organisations using USAid account

August 2018

  • A Palestinian toddler sits inside a cardboard fruit box as another girl approaches, outside their home in a poor neighbourhood in Gaza City on August 8, 2017.

    Trump aid cuts hitting Palestinians hard, agencies warn

    Critics accuse US of using issue to force through White House-imposed peace deal, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians suffer impact

February 2018

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 19, 2017 shows Sudanese workers as they offload US aid destined for South Sudan from the World Food Programme (WFP) at Port Sudan.
The US State Department laid out plans on May 23, 2017 to put "America first" and to slash Washington's budget for diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 30 percent. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Donald Trump's dramatic plans, which will be reviewed by Congress, would make government "leaner and more accountable."
If the proposed cuts are approved by US lawmakers, the State Department and USAID budget for 2018 will be $37.6 billion, down from an estimated 2017 spend of $54.9 billion. / AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLYASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images

    Fears grow that Trump’s threat to US foreign aid is putting lives at risk

    Former officials warn of further cuts and moves to deny assistance to any states perceived as hostile

January 2018

  • Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus following a protest against Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

    US projects in Palestinian territories face backlash amid calls for boycott

    Palestinian NGOs under pressure to boycott US-funded projects after Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

May 2017

  • Sudanese workers offload US aid destined for South Sudan from the World Food Programme at Port Sudan. The US State Department laid out plans on May 23 to slash Washington’s budget for diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 30 percent.

    'Trump's aid budget is breathtakingly cruel – cuts like these will kill people'

    Jeremy Konyndyk
  • Mark Green

    George W Bush's man in Africa handed tough challenge by Donald Trump

March 2017

  • Students eat lunch in a classroom at Ceramica primary school in Beira, Sofala, Mozambique

    Trump's proposed cut to school meals scheme branded 'cruel and shameful'

  • U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walks to meet Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, prior to their meeting at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo<br>U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walks to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prior to their meeting at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Eugene Hoshiko/Pool

    Trump's funding cuts to diplomacy and aid would mark retreat from soft power

January 2017

  • Protesters march during the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.

    NGOs: How will the 'global gag rule' affect your work?

    Donald Trump has reinstated policy which cuts US aid funding to NGOs associated with abortion services. How will you be affected?

October 2016

  • A man crosses the dried Bokaa Dam with a donkey cart on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana

    Droughts don’t have to spell disaster. El Niño countries, take note

    David Harden
  • A young Palestinian holds a Palestinian flag

    USAid in Palestine: 'It's not about solving the world's problems but people’s daily ones'

September 2016

  • A man sits on top of USAid parcels in West Point, Liberia.

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Want to change the aid industry? Here's how to do it

    "J"
    It’s widely agreed that the aid system needs to change, but there’s no clear sense of what comes next. We must start by working out how to change

January 2016

  • Screengrab from USAid vulture video

    Drowning in rubbish, Lima sends out the vultures with GoPros

    Kitted out with video cameras and satellite trackers, 10 vultures have been set loose over the capital of Peru to draw attention to the megacity’s overwhelming trash problem – though not necessarily to clean it up
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