Tag: Foreign Aid

U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year in a letter to Congress on Friday, providing the clearest picture yet of what his administration will ...

Before the 2024 U.S. election, some African leaders privately rooted for the transactional, business-friendly environment that they envisioned under U.S. President Donald Trump in a second term. They expected that ...

Internet restrictions and tight media controls initially limited footage of the destruction caused by a massive earthquake in central Myanmar last month. In one of the first videos to trickle ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at major cuts to the U.S. State Department, preparations for Pope Francis’s funeral, and the effect of White House tariffs on the ...

The White House unveiled a sweeping plan on Tuesday to reorganize the U.S. State Department, in one of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive federal overhauls since taking office. The plan ...

Tuesday marked two years since violent clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, sparking a civil war that has led to the world’s ...

When the earth shook in central Myanmar on March 28, many in the Buddhist-majority country waited for the aftermath to undermine the military junta’s repressive rule—reflecting a belief that natural ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to single out a case of supposedly wasteful federal government spending, he chose a relatively obscure program to hammer home the point: scholarships that ...

Amid rising concern about China’s and Russia’s growing influence in Africa and corresponding apprehension about the United States’ capacity to hold its own in the region, President Donald Trump’ executive ...

MASAKA, Uganda—Every morning for the past four years, Agnes Mutesi, 30, has taken a pill that prevents her from getting infected with HIV. As a sex worker, the virus felt ...