"Former African Union ambassador to the US says US government’s aid agency had a ‘major meddling agenda’ across Africa.

Far from being a tragedy for Africa, the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the hands of President Donald Trump’s administration should be cause for celebration, argues Arikana Chihombori-Quao, the former ambassador of the African Union to the US."

Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/16/chihombori-quao-usaid-was-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-in-africa

Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/16/chihombori-quao-usaid-was-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-in-africa

"Former African Union ambassador to the US says US government’s aid agency had a ‘major meddling agenda’ across Africa."

"Chihombori-Quao tells host Steve Clemons that USAID doesn’t have much to show for its decades of education and healthcare projects in Africa and often destabilised countries under the guise of environmental, human rights or social justice agendas."

US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJVWXr #Ethiopia #Tigray #FoodAid #USAid #HumanitarianCrisis

"Toddlers have a very high risk of dying."

The St Dept was supposed to issue waivers to programs deemed life-saving in order for them to continue their work, but the Trump admin’s implementation of the funding freeze/arbitrary selection of programs to CXL have left program WKRs in unfathomable situations: NGOs: owed Ms for work already completed, forcing some to lay off employees.

H & I NGO: US govt currently owes $19M for svcs cmpl in 2024.

#USAID #USPol #DOGE #Rubio https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-cut-off-funds-for-severely-malnourished-toddlers-usaid/

"Americans may not agree about much, but it’s clear they are angry about the degree to which corporations constrain our choices about our health and our bodies...But just when we should be demanding more public accountability and reliability, we seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor, a public good at all, and retreating into the rhetoric of personal responsibility. "

: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/covid-public-health-privatization.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

US Secretary of State #Rubio says purge of #USAID programs is complete, with 83% of the programs cancelled. He thanked the #muskrat's #DOGE in leading the charge. People in poor countries will die. https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-bf442d62af67918a6fc5eee839074601

“if you’re curious about what some of these people who just got fired from #USAID actually did all day long? Here’s one story.” #Rwanda
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/08/usaid-my-next-to-last-project/

How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-disease-outbreaks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k4.qsSF.ux2GlXTKEy62&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

From a #LGBTQi+ human rights Justice working in a #Kenian refugee camp where ppl are starving.
I bet as a direct consequence of #tRump's demolition of #USAID. Keep your donation receipts to make him account for potential genocide in future.
#press #BlackMastodon #BreakingNews #ICC

They need to raise 600$ to assist.please spare anything #mutualaid
gofund.me/268781bd
https://bsky.app/profile/lwere.bsky.social/post/3ljemufa3vk25

Norm Ornstein: "I read Sam Alito's dissent in the #USAID case, about paying out money for services already rendered-- fulfilling a legitimate contract with our government. Alito's dissent is full of lies, mischaracterizations and massive hypocrisy. He is an utter embarrassment to the law." #SCOTUS #politics #ethics

Good news, but another look at how trying bend humanity to its knees is a relentless part of the Trump Republican agenda. #meme #USAID #news #values #psychology #gop #fascism

BREAKING

#SCOTUS votes to uphold lower court order for the #Trump administration to make good on $2 billion in contractually owed payments to various entities, including #USAID. That's one for We The People!

#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News #Fascism

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5177420-supreme-court-blocks-trump-funding/

MAGA has knives out for SCJ Barrett. She dared to apply the law to the #USAID lawsuit. Barrett may now see the MAGA mvt as anti-Christian. She dissented on the "Clean Water Act" too.

"The SC has ruled 5-4 that Trump can’t block $2B in USAID payments.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal justices again."
-Videgrad 24 (Musk's fav news acct)

"I didn't expect this, but I'm increasingly feeling thatAmy Coney Barrett is going to save the Union."
-D Boardman

"Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting.

Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling #USAID, who's also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the NIH & the CFPB, is listed as making just over $167,000/yr.. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the GSA..."

This is an insult to injury, #DOGE threatens millions of people's livelihoods, lives, futures...

#USPol #Musk #Trump https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/

"The explosive memos — which include summaries of email exchanges and top-level meetings inside USAID, as well as internal agency research — were sent by Nicholas Enrich, acting assistant administrator for global health. ProPublica also obtained detailed breakdowns of lifesaving programs managed by the bureau and the projected impact of cutting them. Enrich was placed on leave Sunday."

There are suddenly a bunch of whistle-blowers with nothing to lose.

#usaid #murder

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis