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USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan

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par Naomi Ruth Pendle, Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath

The day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his incoming administration abruptly paused the work of USAID, while also claiming that it would preserve USAID’s “lifesaving and strategic aid programming”. These dramatic, overnight cuts were an unprecedented – and deadly – experiment in relation to aid spending which will have a catastrophic effect on the lives of those who depended on it.

The sudden suspension of USAID is set to make the famine in Sudan the deadliest for…

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