USAID

USAID logo and US flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
USA

State Department refugee office to assume USAID's disaster aid role: cable

The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the US Agency for International Development, the main US foreign aid agency that the Trump...

An American flag and USAID flag fly outside the USAID building in Washington, D.C., US, February 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
USA

Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID 'devastating'

Food aid is stored at Edesia Nutrition warehouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Lauren Owens Lambert
USA

US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage

A recently fired US Agency for International Development (USAID) staff member reacts while leaving work, during a sendoff by former USAID staffers and supporters outside USAID offices in Washington, DC, US, February 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
USA

Trump administration moves to restore some terminated foreign aid programs: sources

An Afghan woman receives food items for her children at a World Food Program (WFP) distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo
USA

Trump administration food aid cuts put millions at risk: aid sources

The World Health Organisation (WHO) logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
World+Biz

Aid cuts could leave more women dying in pregnancy and birth: UN

People queue for donated relief supplies following a strong earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
World+Biz

USAID team fired while in Myanmar earthquake zone, ex-official says

Employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) depart after being told they could go home, in Washington, DC, US, March 28, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis
USA

Remaining USAID staff fired, Trump says Myanmar will still get earthquake aid

Rohingya refugees wait for relief supplies during Ramadan, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File photo
Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fear aid cuts will deepen crisis

Bangladesh faces TB risks amid USAID funding cuts
Health

Bangladesh faces TB risks amid USAID funding cuts

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk sits as US President-elect Donald Trump meets with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, November 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
World+Biz

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE takes up senior post at USAID

Bill Gates. File Photo: Collected
USA

Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding

Rohingya refugees hold placards while attending a Ramadan Solidarity Iftar to have an Iftar meal with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Interim Government, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 14, 2025. File Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
USA

US official sought to end aid for Rohingya refugees: email