What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut

Описание: An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic.

Last summer, reporters Brett Murphy and Anna Barry-Jester journeyed to refugee camps in Kenya and South Sudan, some of the places most devastated by President Donald Trump’s dismantling of foreign aid. They spoke to hundreds of government and aid officials, as well as refugees, who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways.

Here’s what ProPublica found out.

Read our reporting on USAID here: https://propub.li/4jVXQPm

Chapters
0:00 - An American-made crisis
0:32 - Role of USAID
1:00 - Trump & the appointees cutting USAID
2:07 - Hunger crisis in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp
4:02 - Cholera outbreak in South Sudan’s Bentiu refugee camp
6:14 - The fallout of USAID cuts

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