Africa and Foreign Aid - Extraordinary Opportunity to End Donor Dependency

Africa and Foreign Aid - Extraordinary Opportunity to End Donor Dependency

Guest Column - The sudden winding down of USAID by the Trump Administration, the linchpin of America’s annual $40 billion vast footprint in global assistance programs led to wide ranging discussion on the future of foreign aid. Africa, a major recipient of foreign aid is now in the eye of the storm as United States and Western allies continue to reduce foreign aid commitments since 2018 according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Bearing witness to the harm caused by Trump clawing back billions in foreign aid

Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, says the Trump administration has created “waste and inefficiency” through dismantling USAID, the exact opposite of its intended goal. “I'm just back from East Africa,” he said. “And what I saw was children dying all over from these preventable diseases, of malaria, of infections, of malnutrition.” He points out that when we let things like this fester abroad, they will i…