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America's double standards on genocide is a concern for Africa
Is a genocide unfolding in South Africa? According to US President Donald Trump, white South Africans are fleeing what he ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)15h
Children die after USAID funding cuts end lifeline for displaced communities fleeing violence
For years, the United States Agency for International Development had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in ...
Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world's most malnourished
DIKWA, Nigeria — Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is ...
A US-backed group says it will deliver aid to Gaza, but humanitarian organizations are skeptical. Here’s what we know
A controversial new American-backed organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has announced it will begin ...
Kristi Noem says Afghans can return safely under Taliban rule. Experts say that’s ‘patently obscene’
The administration is ending temporary legal status for thousands of Afghans, which advocates fear is a ‘death sentence’ ...
UN Women3d
Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help
Global funding cuts risk shutting down half of women-led groups in crisis zones. Learn what’s at stake—and how you can help.
Devdiscourse3d
Foreign Aid Cuts Push Women's Humanitarian Organizations to the Brink of Collapse
The international community is struggling to keep pace. Humanitarian organizations, already strained by rising demands, are ...
UN Women4d
New survey shows half of women’s organizations aiding women in crises may shut down in six months due to global aid cuts
UN Women sounds the alarm in a report revealing that 90 per cent of surveyed women’s organizations are being pushed to a ...
Human Rights Watch4d
South Sudan: 3 Years On, No Justice for Abuses in Southern Unity
South Sudan’s authorities have yet to bring to justice those responsible for brutal and fatal attacks on civilians three ...
Trump puts white South Africans on citizenship fast track while rejecting all other refugees: ‘As subtle as an air raid’
The same day Trump announced the arrival of white South African refugees, the administration stripped temporary protected status for Afghans already in the United States, formally lifting a shield ...
The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert
Where to put people at least to give them a bit of shading.” Some of his staff have been told that their jobs will end as ...
USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it
In a way, the requiem of the now-dismantled agency can be told through its people — including some entire families, like the ...