The U.N. humanitarian agency say it is cutting 20% of its staff because of “brutal cuts” in funding that have left the organization with a nearly $60 million shortfall. Read more from @AssociatedPress
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#UN #Aid #Humanitarianism #Funding #Cuts #Staff
#Gaza has become ‘a killing field’ due to #Israel blocking #aid, says #UN secretary general - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/09/gaza-killing-field-israel-blocking-aid-says-un-secretary-general-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news?page=with%3Ablock-67f620d88f084f01d2573c04#block-67f620d88f084f01d2573c04
At least 27 people are dead and more than 150 are injured after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. @BBCNews has more.
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#DominicanRepublic #Nightclub #Aid #Caribbean #DR
#Trump admin ends some #USAID contracts providing #lifesaving #aid across the #MiddleEast
The Trump admin has notified the #WorldFoodProgram & other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving #humanitarian programs across the Middle East, a #US ofcl & a #UN ofcl told AP on Mon.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #SoftPower #geopolitics #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-humanitarian-aid-1167e0f64dde9ab6cafa0d5e0b812710
A 63-year-old woman has been pulled out from under the rubble alive more than three days after an earthquake struck Myanmar. Read more from @ABCNews@flipboard.com
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#Myanmar #Earthquake #Disaster #Aid
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Israel prevented the entry of 18,600 aid trucks and 1,550 trucks loaded with fuel.
“To further inflict starvation, the occupation has bombed more than 60 food banks and aid distribution centres, putting them out of service to enable the starvation. It has also bombed and targeted bakeries, halting and closing dozens of them.”
When he first heard the U.S. was halting almost all aid to Africa, he thought it was a joke. Now, Dr. Jean Kaseya, the director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is trying to steer the continent through an uncertain future. Read an interview with him from @npr
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#Africa #CDC #US #Aid #USAID #Trump
La Kharja de l’Aïd, une tradition retrouvée dans les rues de la Tunisie
https://lapresse.tn/2025/03/31/la-kharja-de-laid-ne-tradition-retrouvee-dans-les-rues-de-la-tunisie/
> Des centaines de Tunisiens ont célébré l’Aïd el-Fitr en perpétuant la tradition de la #Kharja, une procession festive et religieuse marquant l’aube du premier jour de l’Aïd. Dès les premières heures du matin, vêtus de leurs habits traditionnels, les participants se sont dirigés vers plusieurs #mosquée
#Culture #Tradition #Celebration #Aiedelfetr #Tunisie #Aïd
Many needy households in Japan are considering reducing their living expenses to cover the necessary spending for their children enrolling in junior or senior high school in April, a survey has found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/society/needy-households-school-preparation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #schools #surveys #poverty #children #aid
L'Arabie Saoudite déclare le dimanche 30/03 comme le jour de l'Aïd... La Tunisie suivera par unité de la décision arabe et islamique...
In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.
This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.
The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.
Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….
Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.
#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees
It has now been three and a half weeks since Israel imposed a complete blockade on all #aid into #gaza, despite daily efforts by humanitarians to secure fresh access, they said in an update from the shattered enclave.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#warcrimes
#genocide
Report 
UN News MAR-26 #press
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…An earlier version of the deal, which #Ukraine agreed to in principle before #Zelensky visited the White House last month, had terms that appeared more favourable to Ukraine. It proposed a joint investment fund w/Ukraine contributing 50% of proceeds from future profits of state-owned natural resources.
Zelensky’s visit on Feb 28 ended w/ #Trump berating him in the Oval Office, later followed by several days during which Washington suspended all intelligence support & military #aid to Ukraine.
#Ukraine says #mineral deal not final; summary shows #US demands more income
The latest U.S. proposal would require Kyiv to send Washington ALL profit from a fund controlling Ukrainian #resources until Ukraine had *repaid* all American wartime #aid, PLUS INTEREST, according to the summary, reviewed by Reuters.
#extortion #MafiaState #geopolitics #Trump #StandWithUkraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-suggests-temporary-administration-ukraine-end-war-2025-03-28/
The decline of democracy in Asia is especially severe, with many former success stories now backsliding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/27/world/democracy-collapsing-in-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #asia #democracy #india #indonesia #us #usaid #ned #aid
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