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Biden names Samantha Power as US aid chief, boosts role

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President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce his plans Wednesday to nominate former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and to elevate the position to membership...

Spurring Innovation to Help Venezuelans January 01, 2021 share Print The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank launched the BetterTogether, or Juntos-Es-Mejor, Challenge. Embed share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:52 0:00 Pop-out player The mismanagement and corruption of the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro has plunged Venezuela into the worst humanitarian, political, and economic crisis in its history. The United States ha...

In this Thursday, December 17 photo, three-year-old Peter Sebit stands outside a health clinic in Pibor, South Sudan, waiting to get food supplements. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Deputy Administrator John Barsa has expressed concern about "alarming hunger" in South Sudan including children suffering from acute malnutrition. "The United States is gravely concerned by the worsening food-security situation in the Republic of South Sudan,...

More than five million people have fled Venez­uela because of the ongoing political and economic crisis. Trinidad, which is just seven miles (11.2 kilometres) away from Venezuelan by sea, has seen thousands of people fleeing here. There are also allegations that a human trafficking ring exists. However, Trinidad and Tobago is not the only country grappling with an influx of illegal Venezuelans. Neighbouring countries of Colombia, Peru and Brazil have Venezuelans flocking there by the tens of...

December 18, 2020 Since April, most media reports on activities at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been negative, and unfortunately, most have been accurate. But most of the bad news stories have focused on a small cohort of political appointees and their shenanigans who were brought into leadership positions after former administrator Mark Green’s departure. The good news for the incoming Biden team is that much like the well-built homes of old, the “bones” o...

Yemen: Houthi Terrorism Designation Threatens Aid Format US Action Risks Lives of Millions Already Facing Starvation (Washington) – The Trump administration’s potential designation of the Houthi armed group in Yemen as a “foreign terrorist organization” would threaten humanitarian aid on which millions of Yemenis rely for survival, Human Rights Watch said today. Over 20 million people in Yemen – nearly two-thirds of the population – require food assistance. If the US government desi...

US Action Risks Lives of Millions Already Facing Starvation An aid worker gives a food ration to a woman in Sanaa, Yemen, July 19, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (Washington) – The Trump administration’s potential designation of the Houthi armed group in Yemen as a “foreign terrorist organization” would threaten humanitarian aid on which millions of Yemenis rely for survival, Human Rights Watch said today. Over 20 million people in Yemen – near...