Africa: U.S. Ends Lifesaving Aid to Seven African Nations

Cape Town — The Trump administration is canceling humanitarian aid programs it previously identified as lifesaving, according to an internal State Department email obtained by The Atlantic.

The new round of cuts will reportedly end all U.S. humanitarian funding in seven African countries — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe — in what officials describe as a “responsible exit”. Nine other nations, including Ethiopia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the…