International Development
How the Refugee System Fails the Whistleblowers It Should Protect
The New Humanitarian - The government and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, are institutions mandated to protect refugees. They are entrusted with enormous responsibility...
Why Is GSA’s Procurement Chief in International Negotiations Over Ukraine and Gaza?
Defense One - Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, a Trump appointee focused on government purchasing, has been attending high-level negotiations related to Ukraine...
For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts
New York Times - The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now, many studies are being...
Inside Trump’s $11 Billion Health Plan to Replace “Neo-Colonial” USAID
Axios - The Trump administration is launching an unprecedented, $11 billion soft-power effort to remake foreign health assistance after its controversial decision to gut...
Ex-USAID workers start global aid group
After USAID was shut down amid Trump administration layoffs many of those fired workers say that hasn’t stopped them from wanting to serve people...
Israel says it will bar dozens of aid groups from operating in Gaza
Israel, citing security needs, has imposed strict new conditions on international NGOs that the U.N. and aid groups say could cripple the relief effort...
Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
As Trump officials dined at a luxury hotel in Nairobi, Mary Sunday cradled her 7-month-old in the pediatric malnutrition ward of a refugee camp...
The Great Aid Recession: 2025’s Humanitarian Crash in Nine Charts
The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025...
US ‘adapt, shrink or die’ terms for $2bn aid pot will mean UN bowing down to Washington, say experts
Afghanistan and Yemen excluded from list of 17 priority countries chosen by Trump administration to receive aid laden with demands
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Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela. Here’s how that might go
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Ambassador Fredrick Barton, now a lecturer at Princeton University, about the challenges of U.S. nation-building in countries such as...
The Foreign Aid Wipeout: A Shadow Revolution in America’s Middle East Policy
Since January, Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped U.S. foreign assistance, ostensibly to align with his “America First” foreign policy. The administration has effectively eliminated...
Push to ‘reform the government root and branch’ detailed in Trump’s new management agenda
<! employees accountable for results aligned with presidential policies.”
After the president issued an executive order to cease DEI-related activities across government, agencies conducted...
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