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The Tama Community Conservation Area (TCCA), started in 2022 with $8.5 million from the USAID’s BIOM project, had made progress in environmental stewardship.It helped cut down illegal hunting ...
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A merchant ship full of wheat set sail from Oregon earlier this month, headed towards the port of Aden in Yemen. But when that carrier eventually arrives at its intended destination in mid-May ...
The State Department said Thursday that the life-saving wheat aboard a carrier ship sailing toward southern Yemen will not go to waste, as it responded to CNN’s reporting that the Trump ...
A sudden USAID funding cut has stalled conservation efforts in Ethiopia’s Tama Community Conservation Area (TCCA), a 197,000-hectare (486,000-acre) corridor home to elephants, giraffes and other ...
The effects of the aid cuts are widespread, with many USAID contracts terminated. Already, Ethiopia has been forced to lay off 5,000 local healthcare workers who were working on its HIV response.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday introduced a new tax for all workers as part of measures to fill the financial gap left by the USAID funding pause.
Ethiopia is a very poor country and the largest recipient of USAID funds in sub-Saharan Africa, at roughly $1 billion annually, a mere 0.015 percent of the annual U.S. budget.
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Washington (CNN) — A merchant ship full of wheat set sail from Oregon earlier this month, headed towards the port of Aden in Yemen. But when that carrier eventually arrives at its intended ...