The United States government’s abrupt cuts to nearly all US foreign aid in 2025 harmed the global human rights movement and ...

“We can’t fill the gap,” sighs Seramila Teddy, the governor of Sava, a region in the north-east of Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world. He says that since President Donald Trump ...

“It’s heartbreaking,” says Velontafa Jackia, a doctor based in Sambava, in the north-east of Madagascar. Until this year she was part of a project funded by the United States Agency for International ...

Over the past year, sharp aid cuts have forced the closure of soup kitchens in war-riven Sudan, led to medicine shortages across sub-Saharan Africa, and resulted in reductions in food rations in ...

President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. Editorial Fellow From the first days of his second term, ...

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