US EditionOne year after the USAID funding cuts: A wake-up call Africa needed
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TURKMEN TERZI | JOHANNESBURG TR824 It has emerged that Donald Trump's large-scale cuts and structural changes to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), following his planned return to the presidency in 2025, have plunged health systems in Africa into a deep crisis. A recent report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) states that the US withdrawal from the health sector over the past year has resulted in a "catastrophic" humanitarian cr…
One year after the USAID funding cuts: A wake-up call Africa needed
By Kwesi MBIR A year ago, the unthinkable happened. The tap was turned off. USAID, the largest bilateral donor to Africa’s development, was dismantled, leaving a dent in the continent’s aid-dependent economy. Many, myself included, predicted severe consequences. We were wrong. In her book Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo asks a question that once seemed impossible: “What do you think Africans would do if aid were stopped, simply carry on as usual?” (Moyo,…
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