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‘We lost their voices’: Sudan radio program falls silent after US aid cuts
Sara Jerving
Governance & Rights, Democracy & Governance
‘We lost their voices’: Sudan radio program falls silent after US aid cuts
Sara Jerving
Governance & Rights, Democracy & Governance

Radio Tamazuj ran a radio program focused on the war in Sudan until the program was terminated by the Trump administration.

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Sara Jerving
Governance & Rights, Democracy & Governance
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Emails detail confusion in State Department over Trump plan to destroy contraceptives [WaPo] ↳
Moral Leadership, Gender Equality

Newly disclosed emails obtained through a Center for Reproductive Rights FOIA lawsuit reveal that State Department officials could not determine what was inside the Belgian warehouse holding $9.7 million in USAID-purchased family planning supplies. The Washington Post reports the administration never destroyed the commodities, instead letting them expire.

Moral Leadership, Gender Equality
Moral Leadership, Health, Global Health Security
The human cost of DOGE's war on USAID [The New Yorker] ↳
Moral Leadership, Health, Global Health Security

In an interview with David Remnick, former USAID global health leader Atul Gawande estimates that the agency's dismantling by DOGE has already caused roughly 700,000 deaths.

Moral Leadership, Health, Global Health Security
Gender Equality & Inclusion, Moral Leadership
Fall in funding cuts aid to 1 million women: UN [Al Jazeera] ↳
Gender Equality & Inclusion, Moral Leadership

A new U.N. Women report finds that at least one million women and girls have been cut off from life-saving support over the past 18 months as global aid funding has evaporated — a retreat led by the U.S.

Gender Equality & Inclusion, Moral Leadership

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1 decision, 22 stories: How the US aid cuts unfolded in communities around the world

July 2026

Over the past year, The Aid Report followed the human consequences of the Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. foreign assistance, documenting how a single policy decision reshaped lives across 13 countries. Through 22 deeply reported stories, this collection traces impacts through clinics, classrooms, farms, refugee camps, forests, and conflict zones. Together, they reveal one global story told through vastly different human experiences.


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Why did the US State Department stop sharing air quality data?
Climate & Environment
Why did the US State Department stop sharing air quality data?
Climate & Environment

The U.S. has stopped publicly sharing air quality data collected at embassies around the world, leaving many countries without trusted pollution measurements.

Photo credit: Valeria Mongelli / Anadolu via Reuters Connect

Climate & Environment

The Aid Report Impact Tracker is a living, public record of real-world impacts from U.S. foreign aid cuts. Each entry captures verified accounts of disruption or change — from halted health services to shuttered education programs. Every submission is reviewed and vetted by our editorial team before inclusion.

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“The most difficult moment has been losing access to the basic and necessary needs of life—no food, no medicine, no cash, and no services. Every day has become a fight just to survive.”

— A community member in Kadugli, South Kordofan State, Sudan. As told to Mercy Corps following the termination of a direct cash assistance program.

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Mazin Alrasheed

Three children walking on a dirt path in a dry landscape, carrying baskets of sand or soil on their heads, under a partly cloudy sky.

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