Sara Jerving
Senior Reporter at Devex
Global health journalist at @Devex [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
The agency's foreign service officers have been ordered to return to the U.S. by Aug. 15th. That's the same day all local hires in countries where USAID has worked will be terminated. It’s the end of an era for USAID foreign service officers and their colleagues from the host countries who worked alongside them.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene |Sara Jerving
On Friday night, Peter Marocco — the director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance — sent a message to his team. “I’m fielding [White House] calls on whether we’ve complied yet with the President’s order to stop all payments to Afghanistan,” Marocco wrote in an email, which was later obtained by Devex. He then listed a series of questions relating to awards in that country, asking his team to confirm whether they had “stopped all payments of any kind” that go toward Afghanistan.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
A federal judgehas temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Inter-American Foundation through a preliminary injunction. This unwinds the actions taken over the past month and a half — reinstating IAF’s president and chief executive officer, Sara Aviel, and voiding actions taken by Peter Marocco, which include terminating IAF’s grants and firing staff. Marocco, a Trump appointee, has served as a leading player in dismantling the U.S. foreign aid apparatus.
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4 weeks ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene |Sara Jerving |Adva Saldinger
The Trump administration has shared documents with the U.S. Congress containing what appears to be a complete list of all 5,341 terminated USAID programs — along with 898 which are still active. The documents reveal the administration has terminated 86% of programs from the U.S. Agency for International Development — marginally more than the 83% reported on March 10 by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In total, the document contains details of the termination of programs worth $75.9 billion.
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4 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
It was a series of unheeded warnings, unanswered emails, blocked payments, health supplies stranded in a warehouse, culling of staff, misrepresentations to the public, and an underplaying of the seriousness of the spread of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. That’s how Nicholas Enrich described the Trump administration’s fumbling of its role in Uganda’s Ebola outbreak — which has since resulted in 12 laboratory-confirmed cases and two deaths.
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USAID foreign service officers have been ordered to return to the U.S. by Aug. 15th. That's the same day all local hires — known as foreign service nationals — in countries where the agency has worked will be terminated. https://t.co/gENIALbuCD
RT @elissamio: A 'death sentence for millions' as US cuts more aid with @sarajerving https://t.co/2k7BzxZfqZ #Devex via @Devex
RT @devex: Some 42 programs that were previously slated to survive the final round of USAID cuts were killed, primarily for humanitarian as…