The Arizona Daily Star published on 23 February 2025 an article titled "Local Opinion: The Heroic Projects of USAID" by Kathleen Walker.
The author, a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala who worked with USAID-funded programs, comments on her experience. She concludes that claims of a leftist agenda are nonsense; USAID saves lives abroad and promotes economic security.
The New York Times published on 21 February 2025 an article titled "'We Are Seeing Complete Destruction': The Damage Done by U.S.A.I.D. Freeze" by Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International.
The author comments that the Trump administration appears to be engaged in an effort to "almost entirely eliminate foreign aid programs." He then summarizes programs around the world that will disappear if this initiative is allowed to go forward by the courts and Congress.
Oxfam published on 16 September 2022 a report titled "Hunger in a Heating World: How the Climate Crisis Is Fuelling Hunger in an Already Hungry World."
Climate change is fueling hunger for millions of people around the world. Oxfam looked at 10 of the worst affected "climate hotspots"--those countries with the most recurring UN humanitarian appeals in response to major extreme weather events since 2000. Seven of the 10 countries are in Africa: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. The other three are Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Haiti.
Oxfam found that acute hunger has more than doubled in those countries just over the past six years. Nearly 18 million people in these 10 countries are currently on the brink of starvation.
