“They don't ask for money,” said Martha*, a fish trader in Zambia who experienced this first-hand: “They demand sex.”. Since 2023, international charity ActionAid has run a program to ...

As USAID offices officially close on Tuesday, Dr. Brooke Nichols's research is not alone. An international, 15-member ...

President John F. Kennedy established USAID in 1961 to administer foreign aid and development assistance. In the 2023 fiscal year, it disbursed almost $44 billion for projects in 160 countries and ...

USAID had funded programs to have community health workers teach people maternal and child health practices, and local groups to guard against poaching. She, students and researchers had been doing ...

But now, a group of former USAID staff has come together to connect big donors with cost-effective projects like this, which desperately need cash to carry out operations already in the pipeline.

Nine direct and five flow-through USAID projects at MSU were terminated, amounting to more than $20 million in funding lost, according to a university spokesperson. Thursday, July 10, 2025 Home ...

‘They demand sex in exchange for fish’: Women affected by Trump’s USAID cuts at risk of exploitation. Exclusive: Extensive droughts in Zambia have forced women into sexual exploitation ...

But now, a group of former USAID staff has come together to connect big donors with cost-effective projects like this, which desperately need cash to carry out operations already in the pipeline.