NPR speaks with Katya Schwenk, a reporter at investigative news outlet “The Lever,” about a memo outlining the Trump administration’s use of a refugee fund to resettle white South Africans in the U.S.
A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration is planning to deport migrants to Libya, but a federal judge blocked any deportations there without due process (Image credit: John Moore)
Sudan’s capital city has been liberated after more than two years of civil war, but it’s been left in ruins.
The Trump administration maintains that HIV meds have survived foreign aid cuts. In Zambia, as in other countries, people are struggling to find pills and risk getting sick without medication.
Massad Boulos, Trumps new Senior Advisor for Africa and father-in-law to daughter Tiffany Trump, kicks starts his first official trip on the continent, with a visit to the mineral rich and war wracked Democratic Republic of Congo. (Image credit: Jeenah Moon)
The world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, could be on the brink of another civil war. At the heart of the tensions is a power struggle between the country’s president and vice president.
Thousands of USAID contracts have been cut. African health leaders say the cuts aren’t surprising. But the lack of advanced warning has turned the lives of the already vulnerable upside down.
Government officials in the small African country of Lesotho were shocked by President Trump’s dismissive remarks that “nobody has ever heard” of their country.
The Trump administration is dismantling the United States Agency for International Development, USAID. They had been doing humanitarian work in more than 100 countries. We hear from NPR correspondents around the world about what the agency had been doing on the ground and what it’s elimination could mean.
Many Africans were caught off guard by the abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid, stopping money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls’ education and free school lunches. (Image credit: Alfonso Nqunjana)