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What will define Elon Musk’s legacy? Doge cuts to USAID Ebola programs

Experts say cuts have hindered the response to DRC’s Ebola outbreak and resulted in ‘significant numbers’ of deaths

The Guardian - US

The Real Cost of DOGE: Why Critics Say Elon Musk Can't Tweet His Way Out of the USAID Disaster

Elon Musk defends foreign aid cuts under DOGE amid accusations of potential humanitarian harm, sparking a debate over the balance between government efficiency and humanitarian costs.

International Business Times UK

US Restricts Disease Experts from Communicating With WHO Amid Ebola Outbreak and Global Health, Reports Reveal

The Trump administration has restricted US infectious disease experts from direct WHO communication, impacting global outbreak responses, including the Ebola crisis in Central Africa.

International Business Times UK

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White House pauses removal of detainees to DRC as Ebola outbreak widens

But Trump administration will not return detainees deported to third countries in disease-stricken region

The Guardian - US

U.S. To Deny Visas To Applicants Who Face Persecution In Their Home Country: Report

The Trump administration now requires that applicants for visas affirm that they do not fear persecution in their home countries.

International Business Times

Trump aid cuts could push next Ebola outbreak to spiral out of control, former US official warns

A countdown is on to declaring the end of a current Ebola outbreak, but former Biden official Jeremy Konyndyk warns that we might not be so lucky again if US cuts to aid continue to bite

The Independent UK

'Children starving': Israel condemned over aid denial

Australia's most senior politicians have denounced Israel's denial of aid to starving civilians in Gaza in their strongest intervention on the conflict to date.

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‘American death zones’: Trump admin announces $30m for Gaza aid program where dozens have been killed trying to get food

Testimony collected by The Independent from Palestinians whose family members have been killed at sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation paints a picture of chaos and death

The Independent UK

‘My son went to get flour. He came back in a coffin’: As the world focuses on Iran, Palestinians are being shot dead seeking aid

MIDDLE EAST IN CRISIS: While the world has its attention fixed on a regional war, desperate Palestinians are being killed by the dozen as they seek food at controversial American-run aid sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall

The Independent UK

Trump admin sending three USAID staffers to Myanmar to help with earthquake relief

Much larger Russian and Chinese teams have already been helping search-and-rescue efforts in the country for days

The Independent UK

Musk claims USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have restarted after DOGE cuts. Officials disagree

‘There was a waiver for Ebola, but USAID funds have never been back online,’ a current official said

The Independent UK

Elon Musk admits that DOGE accidentally canceled Ebola prevention during USAID cuts: ‘We won’t be perfect’

SpaceX boss claims there was ‘no interruption’ to the Ebola program, but a former USAID head says otherwise

The Independent UK

Musk appears alongside Trump in the White House to admit mistakes will happen in DOGE’s major government reform: ‘Nobody is going to bat 1,000’

Elon Musk admitted he won’t be correct 100% of the time in his work at DOGE, after being questioned if his team had mistakenly said $50 million in condoms were being sent to Gaza and not Mozambique.

Fortune

Thousands protest USAid workers being recalled from abroad or put on leave

News comes after nearly a thousand contractors laid off or furloughed, and USAid website and X account removed

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The Guardian - UK

Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid

The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off

Al Jazeera

Is the US sending $50m in condoms to Gaza as Trump claims?

The US president has listed the stopping of condoms to Gaza as an accomplishment. But is he thinking of the wrong Gaza?

Al Jazeera

UN chief expresses ‘concern’ over Trump’s freeze on US foreign aid

Experts say Trump administration’s order to halt foreign assistance will ‘cost many, many lives’.

The Guardian - UK

Israel mulls using private security contractors to deliver aid to Gaza

Discussion about letting private firms bid for contracts comes before Knesset vote on banning UN relief agency from operating in Israel

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The Guardian - UK

Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started

Samantha Power becomes first US official to confirm famine, while aid workers decry continuing lack of help

The Guardian - UK

Israel’s rules of engagement seem looser than ever – if they are followed at all

The deaths of seven aid workers add credence to allegations by observers that commanders on the ground in Gaza may ‘do as they please’

The Guardian - US

Biden administration’s Gaza strategy panned as ‘mess’ amid clashing goals

Strain of aiming to influence Israel’s actions without leverage and also avoiding starvation is showing, say analysts

The Guardian - US

‘Who is going to distribute it?’: the key flaw in US’s plan to build aid port in Gaza

‘You need drivers, trucks and a distribution system that doesn’t exist,’ says president of Refugees International aid advocacy group

WEKU

Airdropping aid is inefficient — so why is the U.S. doing it in Gaza anyway?

There is a "really grim irony" to the U.S. supplying both the bombs that are dropping on Gaza and now the food parcels that are dropping there, according to one aid expert.

Reason

Airdropping Aid to Gaza Is an Expensive Gimmick

The airlift avoids the real problems causing starvation.

International Business Times

Israeli Offensive Would Turn Rafah Into A 'Graveyard': MSF US

An Israeli ground offensive in Rafah would turn the southern Gaza city into a "graveyard" and heighten the looming risk of famine, leaders of global humanitarian groups warned on Tuesday.

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