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The United States is facing criticism that it has abandoned Myanmar as the civil war-torn country struggles to recover from a ...
As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday rejected criticism that Washington was slow to respond to the March 28 earthquake because USAID was dismantled. Rather, he told reporters in Brussels, Myanmar ...
The Trump administration fired three workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday as they were in Myanmar to assess damage from the earthquake and to report back on ways ...
The Trump administration has fired three USAID workers who were sent to Myanmar to assess how the United States could assist with relief efforts following last month’s devastating earthquake.
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I spoke with Milligan, who retired from USAID in 2021, via Zoom on Tuesday about the inadequacy of the US response to the earthquake recovery and its impacts on citizens of Myanmar; how the ...
A U.S. team has yet to arrive in Myanmar after last week’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake, while China has already rescued six ...
USAID accounted for a third of Myanmar’s foreign aid last year. Now, this funding is gone as the country grapples with a ...
The US has sent a three-person team to Myanmar to help respond ... States contributed 225 USAID workers and $185 million to Turkey and Syria after the 2023 earthquake. “The Trump ...
He said the firings will cut "the last remnants of the team that would have mobilized a USAID disaster response" to the earthquake. Trump on Friday said he had spoken with officials in Myanmar ...
The U.S. Secretary of State defended a modest $2 million contribution for Myanmar, recovering from a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ...