The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants, according to an ...
BRUSSELS — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is facing a crisis after the United States halted dozens of aid grants despite an emergency waiver meant to keep food assistance flowing. The freeze ...
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...
The U.S. Agency for International Development is the world's largest foreign aid agency, spending more than $40 billion in ...
The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...
The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...
Exemptions include humanitarian assistance such as core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... aid groups around the world. In a statement late Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Rubio had provided waivers for food assistance as well ...
After Donald Trump froze nearly all U.S. foreign aid last week, international projects on health, education, food, and all other humanitarian areas were placed in jeopardy. On Tuesday night, newly ...