"Stoltenberg becomes Norways new finance minister amid fears of global trade war
Ex-NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shifts focus from military conflict in Europe to help Norway tackle a possible global trade war initiated by Donald Trump."
is being targeted by the Trump administration and billionaire Musk, who is in charge of the presidents cost-cutting team.
The top 10 recipients of USAID-managed funds were, in descending order of funding: Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria.
"Trump wants rare earth resources from in exchange for aid
Germanys Olaf Scholz calls presidents plan selfish but reports suggest idea may have come from Kyiv"
The Japanese government is considering offering medical care in the world's fourth-largest economy for sick and wounded residents of Gaza, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said.
has also taken a keen interest in the federal govts real estate portfolio, managed by the General Services Administration, moving to terminate leases. Internally, leaders have started to discuss eliminating as much as 50% of the agencys budget.
Perhaps most significant, has sought to dismantle , the govts lead agency for & development assistance. has already frozen spending, but Musk has gone further.
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Israel continues to delay and deny the agreed amount of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Al Mayadeen also reported:
"Government Media Office in Gaza: The Israeli occupation is delaying the implementation of the humanitarian protocol and evading its obligations"
Secretary of State , now the supposed acting administrator of , said that he has delegated his authority to someone but did not identify that person.
, the sec of , said Mon that he is the acting administrator of the , the govt agency that had been targeted for closure by . On a trip to El Salvador, Rubio told reporters that many of the agencys aid programs were worthwhile & would continue under the State Dept.He blamed the agency for obscuring details about its work & said that its employees were not cooperating w/reasonable questions from the incoming admin.
The security officials contended that staff with Musks team lacked the required clearances, making them legally obliged to deny access.
USAid headquarters reportedly closed Monday and workers told to stay home
We Will Fight Back: Aid Workers Fear Closing a Camp on the Arizona Border Will Endanger Migrants
For the past two years, religious and humanitarian organizations have provided food and aid to migrants at a camp near Sasabe, Arizona. Just before Donald Trump took office, volunteers were told to clear off federal land.
It was not immediately clear what assistance wanted to suspend in 2023, the obligated nearly $440M in assistance to , the most recent year that full data is available. The lions share went to programs, especially treatment & prevention.
Ramaphosa, in his post on X, said from , a US funded AIDS prevention program, made up 17% of South Africas HIV/AIDS program, but apart from that, the South African govt received no direct from the US.
threatened to cut all US to while claiming, without evidence, that the govt there is confiscating land, wading into a sensitive racial issue while deepening already sharp divisions between the US & South Africa over & .
Trump posted that South Africa is confiscating land, & treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY, in comments widely interpreted as referring to South Africans.
Why does want 'to die' And why did its website disappear : Goats and Soda
Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdown
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing its greatest threat since its inception over 60 years ago, as President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk spent the weekend impugning the agency that has contributed to Washington being the most critical source of fore...
Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdown
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing its greatest threat since its inception over 60 years ago, as President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk spent the weekend impugning the agency that has contributed to Washington being the most critical source of fore...
Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdown
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing its greatest threat since its inception over 60 years ago, as President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk spent the weekend impugning the agency that has contributed to Washington being the most critical source of fore...
Trump says he will cut off funding to South Africa over land confiscations
Local business sees gap in funding
Africa knew Trump's 'America First' pledge meant it might be last. Then he cut aid.
Africans hadn't expected the abrupt halt to foreign aid from the world's largest donor that stops money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls' education and free school lunches. U.S. gave the region more than $6.5 billion...last year.
TIL that an "aid" organisation stole $30.000 from Mohammed Hammad, a disabled teenager in Gaza:
So I just donated again to Mohammed on his new fundraiser set up by Queercrips love Palestine:
As a Canadian and global development person who worked in emergency relief and continues to monitor aid, both the dismantling of USAID and the volatility of the trade relationship with the US this weekend have been absolutely unbelievable.
It is just... simply... speechless inducing.
I hope the we, the collective, find a way to band together.
Trump placed 2 top security chiefs at on leave after they refused to turn over material in restricted areas to s inspection teams.
Members of , eventually gained access to the agencys classified info, which includes reports.
Musks DOGE crew lacked high-enough clearance to access that info, so the 2 USAID security officials & deputy were legally OBLIGATED to deny access.
American-funded organizations around the , charged w providing care for the most desperate and vulnerable populations imaginable, have for days been forced to completely halt their operations, turn away patients and lay off staff following a series of sudden stop-work demands from the administration. Despite an announcement earlier this week ostensibly allowing lifesaving operations to continue, those earlier orders have not been rescinded.
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Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme
's HassanSMohamud threatens with if is cut off, using fear tactics to secure funding. But his claims are built on lies, omitting key facts about 's independence & . realDonaldTrump
Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid Still in Place, Despite Administration Claims
The shutdown of has cost jobs, devastated working families, & impacts people around the world. It weakens US standing, disrupts critical efforts, & threatens economic and national security.
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So pulled the plug on , one of the largest official agencies in the world, accounting for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms (with a budget of over $50 billion)". The website usaid.gov is gone and it is unclear what the 10,000 staff, mostly overseas, are supposed to do. Aid always was a soft arm of , however I am not sure anyone appreciates this live deconstruction experiment on millions of real people.
I didnt realize how incredibly incompetent they are in the new administration, the shot themselves in the foot, even a Fox anchors admitted that
Politico reporter Kyle Cheney wrote on X that the judge specially cited "comments by the president's press secretary" as his reason for likely blocking the administration's "hugely ambiguous" order to freeze funds.
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Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: Hes a destroyer
People Will Die: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. Thats Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. Ive never seen anything that scares me as much as this, one doctor said.
"U.S. policy for decades has been that aid given abroad pays for itself through greater national security, by stabilizing regions and economies and improving relations with partners.
But many Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers believe much foreign assistance is money that should be spent or saved at home."
World reeling after freezes :
In , residents on the frontline of the war w/ may be going w/o firewood in the middle of winter.
Some of the worlds most vulnerable populations are already feeling s sudden cutoff of billions of dollars in American that helps fend off , treats & provides for the .