U.S. lifts pause on food donations for World Food Programme
The United States has lifted a pause on food donations, the U.N. World Food Programme said, ending a suspension that an aid ...
Secretary Rubio should take a page from Senator Rubio’s book on foreign aid
As Secretary Rubio presides over a foreign aid crisis of the Trump administration’s own making, he may want to remember his ...
UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver
By Simon Lewis, Leah Douglas and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ...
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Rubio reveals plans to exempt key programmes from USAID shutdown
The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...
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Rubio widens exemption for US foreign aid after freeze
Exemptions include humanitarian assistance such as core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence ...
Rubio says US identifying USAid programmes to be exempted from shutdown
The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...
Trump freezes foreign aid under ‘America First’ policy
The United States froze virtually all foreign aid on Friday. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, sent an internal memo days after Donald Trump took office vowing an “America First” policy of tightly ...
UN food agency WFP receives dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver
Just hours after taking office on Jan 20, Trump ordered a 90-day foreign aid pause so contributions could be reviewed. Read more at straitstimes.com.