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Much of the world has paid scant attention to Myanmar since the coup. Western countries, which did the most to encourage ...
A former executive at the U.S. Agency for International Development is disputing claims by an international human rights ...
The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers. “That question about ...
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had ...
Amnesty International called on the US and other governments Thursday to secure funding to support education in Myanmar following the removal of USAID programs that are vital for students and teachers ...
US President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 ordered the suspension of funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has hit the Myanmar refugees hard, the report said. The ...
The Myanmar Ethnic Women Refugee Organization ... A Legal Limbo In addition to its USAID cuts, the Trump administration has also indefinitely suspended its global refugee resettlement program.
And the agency has been paralyzed, unable even to respond to such dramatic events as the Myanmar earthquake. Surprisingly, since USAID is a relatively obscure agency, with way less than 1 percent ...
In 2024, USAID spent US$240 million in Myanmar, around one-third of all multilateral humanitarian assistance to the country. However, since Trump’s inauguration in January, the number of USAID ...
(CNN) — As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it has abandoned the country in its hour of need ...
But since taking office in January, the Trump administration has laid off thousands of its employees, and cut 83% of USAID programs – including staff and programs working to help Myanmar.