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USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives

The shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out the programs it terminated...

USAID and the United States to the Rescue, a Success Story in Peru

When I was an LDS missionary in Peru in 1970, I lived in a poor ‘pueblo joven’ community to the north of Trujillo for six months. It was…Continue reading on Medium »

Protecting Nutrition Security in Rwanda amid USAID crisis

From receiving approximately $12.7 billion from USAID grants in 2024, to the slashing and the cancelling of USAID programs in 2026, Africa faces reductions in multiple life-saving...

USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives

The shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out the programs it terminated...

How fired USAID staffers are keeping the agency’s work going

Project Resource Optimization matches defunded USAID projects with new donors, allowing the lights to stay on as American foreign aid retreats. 

USAID Is Back in the News For All the Wrong Reasons

Uganda sees spike in disease-related deaths after elimination of USAID

In 2025, the Trump administration dissolved the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Days later, an exemption for "life-saving humanitarian assistance"...

Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying.

When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, went looking for government agencies to axe last year, one of its first targets was the US Agency for International D...

'America First' aid policy reshapes how U.S. delivers global health assistance

Since the dismantling of USAID, the Trump administration has been revamping aid policies, focusing on smaller deals with recipient governments. Countries receiving American aid wil...

UN Agencies Stonewalling U.S. Probe As Links to Hamas Surface in Scrutiny of Aid Programs

With USAID gone, Indo-Pacific allies face the fallout

For more than 60 years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was the backbone of American development diplomacy. Today, it is gone. But the most immediate...

Trump and Elon Musk Crushed USAID. Hunger and Violence Followed.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), wor...

A year after USAID cuts, Philippine development groups struggle as anger lingers

A year after Washington froze and then slashed foreign aid, development workers in the Philippines and across the region say the damage is still being felt, with job losses and aba...

Trump officials urge other countries to join ‘trade over aid’ push

US calls free-market capitalism ‘surest path to prosperity’ and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countriesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Trump administration has moved...

Trump’s Foreign Aid Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors

While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.

Why the end of USAID is a crisis for Washington, but an opening for Africa

African experts warn against overdependence on any single donor or bloc Read Full Article at RT.com

‘Ignorance and cruelty’: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts

Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administrationSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts i...

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

People have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers estimate that less than half have found full-time work.

ADRA Wins Grant from Amazon

28 April 2026 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International just received the Amazon Web Services (AWS) “Go Further, Faster” Grant.  The annual grant, created...

British Taxpayer Funds US Agencies to Fill Gap Left by Trump’s USAID Cuts

The FCDO is expanding support to US-based aid agencies who have had their grants slashed by Trump’s USAID cuts. British taxpayers are filling in the gaps… USAID cuts reduced total...

US Foreign Aid Cuts Harm Human Rights Globally

Click to expand Image A USAID box amid materials left behind after widespread vandalism...

Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump's Gutting of USAID: Study

The decades-old U.S. humanitarian aid agency USAID was largely dismantled in the early days of President Trump’s second term by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The...

Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.

Researchers are just beginning to understand the human cost of America's retreat from international aid.

UN welcomes $1.8 billion US boost for humanitarian operations

An additional $1.8 billion in US humanitarian funding will allow the United Nations and its partners to expand emergency relief operations reaching millions of people worldwide, as...