Of all the impacts that Donald Trump has had on America’s relationship with the rest of the world, arguably the most material has been the withdrawal of $63 billion of overseas aid, much of it to the continent of Africa.
Public outrage and legal challenges, including from Oxfam, met the Trump administration’s immediate closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last year, which had been critical to global humanitarian and development assistance since 1961.
While these cuts represented less than one percent of the federal budget, they have potentially denied education to 23 million children, deprived 95 million people of basic healthcare and caused over 3 million preventable deaths annually by dismantling programmes that provided lifesaving aid, food, clean water and economic support worldwide.
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