{"id":225042,"date":"2026-02-25T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-u-s-ends-lifesaving-aid-to-seven-african-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:11:10","slug":"africa-u-s-ends-lifesaving-aid-to-seven-african-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-u-s-ends-lifesaving-aid-to-seven-african-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: U.S. Ends Lifesaving Aid to Seven African Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Cape Town \u2014 The Trump administration is canceling humanitarian aid programs it previously identified as lifesaving, according to an internal State Department email obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/2026\/02\/trump-state-department-ending-aid-seven-african-countries\/686106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The new round of cuts will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/2026\/02\/trump-state-department-ending-aid-seven-african-countries\/686106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> end all U.S. humanitarian funding in seven African countries \u2014 Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe \u2014 in what officials describe as a &#8220;responsible exit&#8221;. Nine other nations, including Ethiopia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240418.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 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 \u2014 Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe \u2014 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680063:e2b022e78c07c79fa9da907ac60ed544:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4380,7828,377,7933,19905,4301,257,254,2282],"class_list":["post-225042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-aid","tag-cameroon-news","tag-ends","tag-lifesaving","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680063:e2b022e78c07c79fa9da907ac60ed544:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}