Foreign Aid

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Russia’s blockage of aid deliveries threatens to make Syria’s humanitarian disaster the worst it’s been since the war began.

Email phishing attacks aren’t unusual, but the new breach shows Russia isn’t letting up.

American foreign aid needs to go to smaller, smarter deals.

In a time of crisis, the diaspora shows its strength.

Governments tend to fund large humanitarian agencies, but small groups run by refugees are a better investment.

U.N.’s Yemen envoy, Martin Griffiths, is to become the U.N. humanitarian relief czar.

A $12 billion funding boost aims to reverse some of the Trump damage.

The largest provider of urgently needed aid is up for a bigger budget, but some Democrats first want to remove its Trump-nominated head.

After declaring an end to U.S. support for the Saudi-led offensive, there is more the president can do.

As a new variant of the coronavirus spreads across southern Africa, U.S. aid officials are worried about health care—and a lack of guidance from Washington.

But congressional sources say it’s highly unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.

Trump administration appointees at the U.S. Agency for International Development planned to use their final days in power to install allies who would help promote a conservative social agenda.

Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., will seek to revive a troubled agency, while Obama-era veterans Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner get top Asia jobs.

After a drawdown of staff at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad earlier this year, the Trump administration ordered another cut in response to threats from Iran.

Much of the donor money to Afghanistan is lost to fraud and abuse, in part by Western companies.

While seasoned federal officials are being fired, Trump’s loyalists are coming back, threatening fresh tensions between the outgoing administration and Congress.

The next USAID chief will grapple with a pandemic, galloping food insecurity, and allegations of chronic mismanagement under Trump.

Paul Biya’s regime is ignoring the battle against Boko Haram and the Islamic State and using foreign counterterrorism assistance to fund its brutal repression of citizens with legitimate grievances.