Trump administration moves to fire or put on leave nearly all USAID workers | Donald Trump News
Humanitarian assistance experts have warned agency’s demise will harm vulnerable people and weaken US soft power. The administration…
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Egypt developing Gaza reconstruction plan to counter Trump’s ‘take over’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, has confirmed Cairo is ‘actively developing’ a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The Egyptian…
Trump’s tariffs present fresh headache for India’s slowing economy | Poverty and Development
Hours before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House, President Donald Trump announced that the…
For China, USAID’s demise could be a soft power win in Southeast Asia | Poverty and Development News
As the United States winds back humanitarian assistance in Southeast Asia, its rival China may see an opportunity…
Trump freezes aid to South Africa amid spat over land expropriation law | Poverty and Development News
United States President Donald Trump has frozen aid to South Africa in an escalation of a rift between…
USAID places staff on leave, recalls personnel overseas | Poverty and Development News
Announcement comes as US President Donald Trump confirms he is considering eliminating the aid agency. The administration of…
Food prices skyrocket in DR Congo’s Goma after M23 takeover | Humanitarian Crises News
The cost of some essential food items has more than doubled in Goma, the main city in eastern…
UN chief expresses ‘concern’ over Trump’s freeze on US foreign aid | United Nations News
Experts say Trump administration’s order to halt foreign assistance will ‘cost many, many lives’. The head of the…
Development done right: Why Africa needs more than good intentions | Poverty and Development
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos brings together the world’s most influential leaders with the stated aim…
‘It’s the only way’: Migrants, army face-off along S Africa-Zimbabwe border | Migration News
Musina, South Africa – Every day, Fadzai Musindo walks across the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa –…
In India’s east, farmers risk jail to grow lucrative cannabis crop | Drugs
Odisha, India – Ajay Rout is an Indigenous farmer in a remote village in a southern district of…
The bitter final showdown over British coal, as sun sets on ‘dirtiest fuel’ | Fossil Fuels
Whitehaven, Cumbria, northern England – “We were five miles (8km) out from here, 2,000 feet (609 metres) underground.”…
G20 leaders call for ‘comprehensive’ ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon | Russia-Ukraine war News
Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says poverty and hunger the ‘product of political decisions’. Leaders…
Gustavo Gutierrez, champion of Christian liberation theology, dies | Religion News
An advocate for the world’s ‘poor and exploited’, Gutierrez promoted ideals that revolutionised the Latin American church. Peruvian…
‘Like we are trapped’: Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine | Conflict News
Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State,…