Livelihood program in Uganda collapses after U.S. funding withdrawn [NPR] ↳
In northern Uganda, the U.S. canceled a $15 million program that would have helped refugees start small businesses. Thousands of South Sudanese families have been left with no path to self-reliance beyond emergency aid.
Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa [The Economist] ↳
In Madagascar, the loss of a USAID-funded health program has left remote communities without care, driving up maternal deaths, malaria, and disease outbreaks.
For Syrian refugees, US aid cuts have been devastating [FP] ↳
Syrian families who once counted on U.S.-funded cash and food assistance are now facing hunger and eviction as humanitarian support dries up, Foreign Policy reports.
America’s retreat from aid is devastating Somalia’s health system [NYT] ↳
Somalia’s health system is collapsing under the weight of U.S. withdrawal. Clinics once supported by American aid are now turning away malnourished children.
Lesotho’s HIV progress unravels after US aid cuts [AP] ↳
U.S. funding cuts have derailed once-successful HIV programs in Lesotho, the AP reports. The move has forced clinics to scale back services and threatened hard-won gains in treatment and prevention
Foreign aid is mostly gone. It could be replaced with something better [NYT] ↳
The decline of U.S. foreign aid could open space for smarter, locally led models, argues former USAID administrator Raj Shah in this opinion for The New York Times.
US aid cuts are being felt across Africa. Here's where [WaPo] ↳
Across Africa, The Washington Post maps where U.S. aid cuts are being felt most—from shuttered health clinics to food shortages. The fallout spans dozens of countries
US aid cuts deepen hunger crisis in Myanmar [AP] ↳
The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is deteriorating rapidly. The Associated Press reports starvation and death in a country that once counted the U.S. as its largest humanitarian donor.
Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how US aid cuts curtail malaria fight [Reuters] ↳
Babies are dying in Cameroon after malaria programs lost U.S. backing. Health officials say the cuts have crippled prevention efforts.
One-third of children in parts of Kenya severely malnourished [The Independent] ↳
In Kenya’s Turkana County, one in three children screened by Save the Children are acutely malnourished amid overlapping impacts of U.S. and U.K. aid cuts, drought, and climate shocks.
Trump's USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting [WaPo] ↳
Five-year-old Suza Kenyaba died of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo after U.S.-funded medication sat in a regional warehouse due to a suspension of foreign aid. The Washington Post reports that across dozens of countries, USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV supplies were late or never arrived.
The tax on being a girl [NYT] ↳
U.S. aid cuts have forced girls out of school and left women facing rising hunger, early marriage, and health risks in Uganda’s Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Nicholas Kristof writes.
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen [The Guardian] ↳
In Yemen, The Guardian traces a mother’s death to a single U.S. aid decision. The story captures how bureaucracy in Washington can reverberate thousands of miles away.
U.S. aid cuts leave malnourished children without treatment in Nigeria [CNN] ↳
In northeast Nigeria, the termination of a U.S.-funded nutrition program left tens of thousands of children without lifesaving food. One mother’s infant died days after the cut and aid agencies warn that malnutrition and child deaths are rising across Borno state
NPR revisits HIV/AIDS patients who lost access to meds after Trump cut foreign aid [NPR] ↳
In Zambia, people living with HIV lost access to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs after U.S. aid was cut. Months later, clinics remain understocked and patients are struggling to survive without treatment.
The US stopped showing up to disasters. The results are horrifying. [Vox] ↳
America’s retreat from global disaster response has seen humanitarian crises deepen, Vox reports. Countries like Afghanistan and Sudan have struggled to fill the gap once covered by U.S. emergency aid.
In Boko Haram’s birthplace, USAID’s collapse threatens a school for victims of extremism [AP] ↳
A USAID-funded school for children orphaned or displaced by Boko Haram now faces closure after U.S. funding was halted, leaving hundreds of students in limbo.
Life-saving treatment for starving children goes undelivered [NYT] ↳
In northeastern Nigeria, families walk miles with severely malnourished children to clinics that are now closed, according to reporting from The New York Times. The U.S. withdrawal of foreign aid disrupted the supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food, putting tens of thousands of young lives at immediate risk.
‘No more food’: In northern Nigeria, US funding cuts bite for aid groups [Al Jazeera] ↳
In northern Nigeria, organizations like the World Food Programme are scaling back aid or completely halting operations, Al Jazeera reports.
The struggle to protect wildlife around the world as Trump's aid cuts start to bite [The Independent] ↳
The loss of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and USAID grants has forced layoffs, patrol cuts, and stalled anti-poaching efforts across Africa.

