The decision to freeze aid funding has triggered a humanitarian crisis worldwide. Essential medicines are blocked, school meals are abandoned, and vital programs are shut down, leaving millions vulnerable to starvation, disease, and lack of education.
Part of a USAid delivery of sorghum to Sudan, part of the agency’s assistance to 1 million people facing starvation after violence, floods and displacement in 2020.Part of a USAid delivery of sorghum to Sudan, part of the agency’s assistance to 1 million people facing starvation after violence, floods and displacement in 2020.
In Africa, malaria-control programmes in Uganda have been forced to adopt equally draconian measures with reports that dozens of vital projects for frontline care have been closed., where many rely on donor-funded programmes for survival, fears are mounting that the aid freeze could redraw the country’s entire economy.
Colombia’s former president and Nobel peace prize laureate, Juan Manuel Santos, told the Guardian: “I have seen the massive benefit these programmes funded by USAid have generated for people across the country. To cut it, suddenly, is going to have a terrible humanitarian effect.” The former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta urged African countries to view the aid freeze as a “wake-up call” for the continent to prioritise its own development.
Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former official at USAid, described Musk’s wish to close the agency as posing an existential threat to the humanitarian sector.Unplanned pregnancy information poster in Kampala, Uganda, where 11.7 million women and girls will be denied access to contraception under the freeze.
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