A wrong to right
Trump did say it would be ‘America first’ — still, the immediate freeze on foreign aid has shaken local NGOs to the core
02 February 2025 - 00:00
On day one of his second term, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing all foreign direct assistance pending a 90-day review. This was quickly followed by a “stop work order” that immediately froze funding for the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) — the world’s biggest HIV/Aids support programme, which over the past 20 years has pumped $110bn (R2-trillion) into the countries hardest hit by the pandemic...
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