#foreign-aid — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #foreign-aid, aggregated by home.social.
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If the US cuts funding to Israel, could Jordan and Egypt be next?
If Congress decides to reduce or completely phase out United States military assistance to Israel, as many on…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Congress #Egypt #foreignaffairs #Foreignaid #Israel #Jordan #Magazine-WashingtonBriefing #MiddleEast #WashingtonD.C. #World
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Cuts to U.S. #ForeignAid have hit #LGBTQ groups especially hard. https://www.ebar.com/story/170135
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The NGO Trap: How a $1 Trillion Industry Learned to Love African Poverty by Lawson Akhigbe
Somewhere in a glass-and-steel conference centre in Geneva, a distinguished panel is convening to discuss Africa's poverty crisis. The room costs £18,000 a day to hire. The keynote speaker flew business class from Washington. The catered lunch is exceptional. The conference proceedings will produce, in due course, a forty-seven page report recommending as the 1994 report did, as the 2003 report did, as the 2011 report did, more aid. Africa, meanwhile, remains poor. -
Australia is spending billions in its Pacific 'contest' with China — but is it worth it?
By Nick SasAustralia is about to sign another wide-ranging, billion-dollar treaty in the Pacific, this time with Solomon Islands. But as it battles its "contest" with China, a question lingers: Is it value for money?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/solomon-islands-australia-china-pacific-contest/107127740
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Landscape just one challenge for Nepal-Tibet rescuers
By Georgie Hewson, Jessica Riga, and Matt LiddyRescue teams are working against the land itself as they search for survivors of devastating flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/nepal-tibet-flood-rescue-challenges/107089728
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'In the 1970s, the #UN General Assembly adopted a resolution asking #developedcountries to contribute at least 0.7% of their national income to #foreignaid. Most countries signed off on this goal, except for #Switzerland and the #United States. [....]
In 2023, five countries met this target: #Norway, #Luxembourg, #Sweden, ##Germany, and Denmark. Two years on, this has dropped to four, as Germany’s contribution shrank to 0.6%.'
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Zomi Frankcom's family 'deeply disappointed' IDF won't pursue charges
By Andrew ThorpeZomi Frankcom's brother Mal says the decision to announce the outcome of the IDF investigation on World Humanitarian Day was "an insult to my sister's memory".
#WorldPolitics #UnrestConflictandWar #War #WarCrimes #ForeignAid #DefenceForces #DisasterRelief #AndrewThorpe
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At least 68 killed in Indonesia quake as aftershocks hamper rescue efforts
Thousands of displaced people are sheltering in tents and government buildings afraid to return home due to fears of aftershocks as the number of people killed in the earthquake climbs.
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme
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Australia supplants China as Pacific's biggest lender
By Stephen DziedzicAustralia supplants China as the dominant lender and infrastructure investor across the Pacific as the government ploughs billions of dollars into the region through both foreign aid and loans.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/new-lowy-pacific-aid-map-australia-lending-investor/106967764
#ForeignAid #ForeignAffairs #Trade #WorldPolitics #StephenDziedzic
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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands To Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
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BEAN TO BRAND, TARIFF TO TRAP by Lawson Akhigbe
Next in Abuja, four governments will do something that sounds, on paper, like a belated act of economic self-respect. Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon between them the source of roughly two-thirds of the cocoa that becomes the world's chocolate will sign the Abuja Declaration and stand up a Cocoa Value Addition Alliance, a coordinated attempt to stop shipping out raw beans and start capturing some of the value that currently accrues, almost entirely, to everyone else. Nigeria will additionally sign its own Cocoa Value Addition Accord, a domestic compact roping in governors, farmer groups, financiers and researchers into the project of turning bean into brand rather than bean into someone else's bar.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/07/17/bean-to-brand-tariff-to-trap-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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"By slashing UK aid funding to countries like Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda, this Labour government is abandoning communities on the frontlines of conflict and the climate crisis and risks plunging these countries’ populations into poverty and instability.”
#ForeignAid #UKPolitics #Africa
UK aid cuts ‘reduce bilateral support to some African countries by 90%’ | Foreign policy | The Guardian
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Nearly 3/4 of a million human beings have died as a result of the current administration’s closure of #USAID.
Imagine being a parent in a scenario in which your child’s life depended on ongoing treatment provided through USAID. You’re forced to watch your child sicken and die because some jackass in Washington cared so little about non-white, non-American lives, that they were perfectly happy let your child die to save a couple of nickels (so they could spend them on ballrooms and bombs).
This is something that has actually happened—is actually happening. Day by day, week by week, month by month. Needless, wasteful deaths that are a direct result of MAGA xenophobia.
Let’s call it what it is: a lower-case-“h” #holocaust, with Red Don in the role of Führer and Elon Musk as Reinhard Heydrich (architect of the “Final Solution”).
#Amerika #impeach47 #resist #Ω #donotcomply #Africa #ForeignAid
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Girls married off as a climate change 'coping strategy'
By Claire CampbellClimate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials, with 12 million girls tipped to become child brides this year.
#ClimateChange #Women #HumanRights #Children #ForeignAid #DisastersAccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #Floods #DisasterRelief #Storms #ClaireCampbell
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Friend or enemy? China missile test sees Pacific nations finally speak out
By Nick SasThis week, perhaps for the first time in a long time, some sections of the Pacific are signalling a slight adjustment to their relationship with China.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-08/china-missile-test-pacific-solomons-australia/106889058
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Every $1 of USAID funding in FY 2024 generated approximately $2–$4 in measurable economic and strategic returns to the United States
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/usaid-return-investment-roi-analysis-fy2024-lee-mazanec-fcugc -
“The White House and Congress have been battling over federal spending since Day 1 of the Trump administration, setting up a constitutional crisis — a breakdown of the division of power among the three branches of the federal government, according to several legal scholars. “
“Now, in defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend, the administration is quietly escalating the battle.”
#usaid #impoundment #ruleoflaw #foreignaid #rubio #lewin #vought
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From a Respected Hegemon to a Drifting Power
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Foreign Aid used to be about fixing what's wrong in the world, increasing security, and showing humanity. Now, it's becoming a tool for stealing data, extracting value, and training AI.
#AI #foreignaid
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
The Iran War Permanently Altered the Global Economy
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/business/economy/iran-war-oil-trade.html
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Trump administration pledges $100M in aid for Cuba, but only if Catholic or other faith-based groups distribute it. #Cuba #CubanAmericans #Energy #Florida #Foreignaid #HumanitarianAid #Local #MarcoRubio #MiguelDiazCanel #Philanthropyandnonprofits #TheCatholicChurch #USCubaties #USLatinAmericarelations #Venezuela
https://iwpost.com/trump-administration-pledges-100m-in-aid-for-cuba-but-only-if-catholic-or-other-faith-based-groups-distribute-it/?fsp_sid=9581 -
“Never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration” - Médecins Sans Frontières. And a dangerously stupid RFK Jr is Donnie Dementia's secretary of health and human services!
#ebola #epidemic #publichealth #foreignaid #usaid
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Allies are a SOCIALIST PLOT to DRAIN OUR MANLY SELF-RELIANCE!
