South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Eight people infected by cholera in South Sudan including five children died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday. The deaths last month are among the first to be directly attributed to […]
Trump administration moves to restore some terminated foreign aid programs, sources say
Washington DC, US Reuters The administration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently cancelled US foreign aid programs, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. USAID Acting Administrator Jeremy Lewin, who is also an employee of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, asked staff in an internal […]
Trump administration food aid cuts put millions at risk, aid sources say
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration is ending most, if not all, remaining US aid for Afghanistan and Yemen, aid sources said on Monday, in what the UN World Food Programme said could be “a death sentence” for millions. The cuts were among numerous aid programs terminated for more than a dozen […]
Aid cuts could leave more women dying in pregnancy and birth, UN says
London, UK Reuters Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has warned. Globally, there was a 40 per cent decline in maternal deaths between 2000 and 2023, a report […]
Rains add to challenge for Myanmar quake relief, toll at 3,471
Updated: 7:10am, 7th April, 2025 (AEST) Bangkok, Thailand Reuters Rains fell on parts of earthquake-hit Myanmar over the weekend, which aid agencies said could complicate relief efforts and raise the risk of disease as the United Nations aid chief said more tents were needed to shelter those left homeless. The death toll from the powerful […]
With US absent, China steps in for earthquake-hit Myanmar
Bangkok, Thailand/Beijing, China Reuters After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar on Friday, killing more than 2,800 people, international rescuers rushed into the devastated South-East Asian country. The most ubiquitous among them have been Chinese relief workers, whose blue and orange uniforms appear across videos circulating on social media. Members of the Chinese Red Cross […]
All local workers, US diplomats to be fired from USAID, sources say
Washington DC, US Reuters Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalising the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firing of thousands of local workers and American diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. On […]
US aid response in Myanmar faces hurdles after staff cuts
Washington DC, US Reuters The US State Department on Monday said that a US Agency for International Development team was heading to Myanmar to help identify the country’s most pressing needs in the wake of a devastating earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people. But a former top USAID official and a source familiar with […]
Powerful earthquake kills more than 140 in Myanmar, death toll likely to rise
Updated: 8am, 29th March, 2025 Reuters A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar on Friday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper under construction in neighbouring Thailand. Much of the devastation was in Myanmar’s second-largest city, Mandalay, which lies close to the epicentre of the […]
Sudan’s RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say
Reuters A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement its control, including areas where famine is spreading, humanitarian workers say. The move comes as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seek to form a parallel government in the […]