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After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of ...
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 ...
As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it ...
One former US Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director for Myanmar told the BBC that "America has been ...
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 ...
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Myanmar’s junta has plunged the country ... which would have been diverted to earthquake response, USAID employees said. Another terminated program involved helping grassroots organizations ...
By dismantling foreign aid, US President Donald Trump surrendered soft power in Southeast Asia and cleared the path for China ...
USAID accounted for a third of Myanmar’s foreign aid last year. Now, this funding is gone as the country grapples with a ...
And an employee recently let go from USAID confirmed to me that some of the programs that regional offices could have been using in circumstances like the earthquake in Myanmar, those programs ...
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 ...