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The Trump administration will retain fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) out of its global workforce of over 10,000, sources told Reuters. The decision follows USAID’s effective shutdown after Trump’s foreign aid freeze, leaving key relief efforts in crisis.
The mass reduction in USAID staffing is the latest escalation in the administration’s restructuring of foreign aid, following Trump’s executive order pausing U.S. humanitarian funding for 90 days. Since the freeze began on January 20, relief groups have struggled to operate as most USAID employees were placed on leave, cutting off access to essential funding and logistical support.
USAID’s closure has already halted food aid deliveries to conflict zones, including Sudan and Gaza, leaving 500,000 metric tons of food supplies stranded in storage. The shutdown also eliminated the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), a key tool for tracking global hunger crises, raising fears that famine relief efforts could collapse.
Aid workers say volunteer-run food programs have been disrupted, while millions of ready-to-eat nutrition packets for malnourished children remain stuck in warehouses due to uncertainty over funding approvals.
The Trump administration’s focus has shifted toward combating drug cartels and international gangs, redirecting resources away from traditional foreign aid priorities. While some emergency food assistance is expected to continue, humanitarian organizations warn that the lack of USAID personnel could cripple distribution efforts in the months ahead.
The drastic staff reduction has left relief groups in limbo, uncertain whether critical food, health, and disaster relief programs will resume or face further cuts.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Russia’s central bank has ruled the state violated minority shareholders’ rights in seized assets, signalling rare pushback against nationalisation.
A newly elected German mayor survived multiple stab wounds in a family attack.
Cristiano Ronaldo has become football’s first billionaire player, according to Bloomberg, which tracks the world’s richest individuals.
Germany has ended its fast-track citizenship programme, reflecting a shift in public attitudes toward migration and integration.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of the U.S.-proposed Gaza deal, which will see the release of all Israeli hostages, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday.
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