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The website of USAID — which administers more than €55bn in humanitarian help, still offline as of Monday 11 March (Photo: USAID.gov)

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Health and climate hit first as US aid cuts bite — but EU also slashing funding

The shuttering of USAID by the Donald Trump administration will have “a dramatic impact on humanitarian aid projects around the world”, EU crisis management commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, told MEPs last month. 

That is putting it mildly.

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The website of USAID — which administers more than €55bn in humanitarian help, still offline as of Monday 11 March (Photo: USAID.gov)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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