USAID

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka arrives at the Great Hall of the People for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, August 20, 2024. Photo: ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

Fiji leader to press Pacific Islands concerns in Washington after US aid frozen

Analysts warn US aid cuts targeting clean energy risk damaging the United States ability to compete with China in the strategic region, where almost half of pledged aid is climate related

US President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, 31 January 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
USA

Hundreds of US government websites go offline

People hold placards outside the USAID building, after billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading US President Donald Trump's drive to shrink the federal government, said work is underway to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID, in Washington, US, February 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
USA

Elon Musk targets closure of US humanitarian aid agency

A view of the USAID building in Washington, DC, US, February 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
USA

Musk says he is working to shut down 'beyond repair' USAID

A view of the USAID building in Washington, DC, US, February 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
USA

More USAID staff ousted after Trump administration dismantles aid agency

US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, US, November 19, 2024. Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
USA

'Criminal organisation, run by radical lunatics': Musk, Trump on USAID

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, February 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. File Photo: AP via UNB
USA

USAID website goes offline as Trump freezes foreign aid worldwide

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Health

Govt urged to fund vital health projects affected by US aid cut

Passengers rest in the waiting room as an one of the blankets donated by the United States Agency for International Development is seen, during a power outage after critical civil infrastructure was hit by a Russian missile attacks in Ukraine, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, at central railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine November 25, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
USA

Trump administration explores bringing USAID under State Department, sources say

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Bangladesh

Over 1,000 icddr,b employees laid off due to US funding cuts

Ukrainian rescuers appear next to new equipment, which was provide by United States Agency for International Development, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 17 July 2023. Photo: REUTERS
USA

Aid groups get blanket order to pause US-funded programmes as payments dry up

Equipment and supplies for the Urban Search and Rescue team from Fairfax, Virginia, and USAID to help in support operations for victims of the earthquake in Turkey are loaded onto a transport plane at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, U.S., in this handout photo released on February 7, 2023. US Air Force/Handout via Reuters
USA

Hundreds of USAID contractors put on leave, terminated amid US freeze on global aid

Ukrainian rescuers appear next to new equipment, which was provide by United States Agency for International Development before a press conference of the USAID Administrator Samantha Power during her visit to Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 17, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File photo
USA

Trump's freeze on US aid rings alarm bells from Thailand to Ukraine