Wheat, soy purchases for foreign aid halted since Trump review State Department waiver exempted food from aid freeze Freeze leaves farmers and aid groups scrambling Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. has ...

Despite decades of U.S. aid and development programs, poverty, corruption and violence remain entrenched across El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The U.S. has invested billions to promote ...

The US system for monitoring global famine, FEWSNET, which is used throughout the world, has also been shut down amid the Trump administration’s aid freeze. “USAID has been a cornerstone of ...

In an ideal world, USAID strengthens US influence through soft power. At just over $40 billion, USAID’s annual budget is a small fraction of the Department of Defense’s annual allocation of ...

Proposed cuts to the US Agency for International Development could reduce assistance to Ukraine, Jordan, and Ethiopia. Data for fiscal year 2024 shows that USAID distributed nearly $32.5 billion ...

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SYDNEY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Gender equality will become central to Australia's foreign policy, diplomacy, trade and aid programmers under a new international strategy, Foreign Minister Penny Wong ...

After just two weeks in power, President Donald Trump and his top donor and adviser, Elon Musk, are declaring war on U.S. foreign aid. Within hours of taking office, Trump issued an executive ...

But a CNN KFile review of Rubio’s past comments shows he has been for more than a decade a major supporter of foreign aid and USAID, which in fiscal year 2023 distributed more than $40 billion ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Last month, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi made his first trip of 2025 a ...

On his first day in office Jan. 20 ... USAID is the world's largest foreign aid agency. It was created as an independent agency in 1961 under an executive order signed by President John F.

USAID provided humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries, which means its shuttering could hamper American "efforts to alleviate poverty, disease and humanitarian need," said the Congressional ...