In 2023, USAID had allocated a total of $12.1bn to countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with the objective of improving ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent’s ...

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...

Lawmakers in South Africa have laid out plans to shore up the budgets for health and defense but also put up value added tax ...

History has shown that prosperity is built through economic freedom and self-reliance—not through perpetual financial ...

It is not Rwanda's policies that unsettle Western powers, but Rwanda's defiance of a long-standing hierarchical relationship, ...

U.S.A.I.D. The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s aid cuts. The United ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks about the consequences of deep cuts to foreign aid programs with three aid workers in Africa, where about a quarter of USAID funds were allocated.

Thus argued Nana Akufo-Addo, then the president of Ghana, when he launched his “Ghana beyond aid” policy in 2017. Eight years later the west African country may indeed move beyond aid—just ...

The U.S. committed roughly $440 million in federal aid to South Africa in 2023 ... accuracy and fails to recognize South Africa’s profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid.” ...

Trump’s rhetoric and actions are shortsighted and probably counterproductive, and they demonstrate little understanding of South Africa’s history of racial injustice. Since apartheid’s end ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts, a spokesperson said Monday.