Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: United Nations agencies struggle to mobilize resources for Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Malawians await the results of a recent presidential ...
Amid the widespread outcry over the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, many of the agency’s defenders concede that the U.S. aid system needs to be reformed. They ...
The first week of March featured a moment of dark political comedy worthy of Veep creator Armando Iannucci. In a scene that felt scripted for satire, the United States became ...
In just nine months, the Trump administration has laid waste to the development landscape, dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and slashing nearly the entire U.S. foreign aid ...
It has been 140 years since imperialist powers gathered in Berlin for the scramble for Africa. Today, the power dynamics between the continent’s 54 diverse nations and the rest of ...
At a cabinet meeting last week, U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated a key milestone: The United States, according to him, was no longer funding Ukraine in its defense against Russia. ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump is moving to cancel nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid and peacekeeping spending in a rare “pocket rescission,” The Post has learned — making ...
The United Nations is in crisis. Secretary-General António Guterres has mandated 20 percent across-the-board spending cuts, amounting to more than $700 million. The proximate cause of the pinch is the ...
For the last two decades, the global distribution and ease of access for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have transformed HIV from a death sentence to a manageable disease and prevented tens ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a famine declaration in parts of Gaza, a severe spike in oil prices in Russia, and China’s guest list for an ...
