U.N. Orders Agencies to Find Budget Cuts, Including via Staff Moves From N.Y.
The United Nations, anticipating that President Trump will slash U.S. contributions to the global body, has told its departments to ...
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Strawberries Aren’t Ripe for Africa? His Farms Disprove That, Deliciously.
When Thierno Agne was a student casting about for a lucrative career, he told his agriculture professor he was considering ...
Read moreDetailsTrump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation
The children died one after the other. Twelve acutely malnourished infants living in one corner of Sudan’s war-ravaged capital, Khartoum.Abdo, ...
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Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says
At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan ...
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The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in ...
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Dozens Die in Floods Hitting Congo’s Capital
Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the ...
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All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Were Dismissed
The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable ...
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Angola Rail Line Offers Clues to Trump’s Africa Policy
An 800-mile rail corridor stretching from Angola’s northern border to the Atlantic Ocean was former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ...
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How Climate-Resilient Chickens Could Help Fight Poverty
“How old do you think these chickens are?” Levy Phiri asked the crowd, after scooping four multicolored birds out of ...
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical ...
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