USAID officially shuts doors, American government announces

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USAID officially shuts doors, American government announces  It's the end of an era: six decades of development and humanitarian aid around the world have culminated in the shuttering of the US government agency, one of the first objectives of Trump's second term as US president.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/07/02/usaid-officially-shuts-doors-american-government-announces  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01It was one of the first goals of the new U.S. government.

00:05The U.S. Agency for International Development was officially closed down on Tuesday.

00:11This marks the end of six decades of funding and leading development programs around the globe.

00:18I've had heads of state say to me, the most important institution for us in Washington

00:25is not the Defense Department or the CIA or the State Department or the White House.

00:30It's AID because we're a developing country.

00:33We need help in the development process.

00:35USAID was established in 1961 under the government of John F. Kennedy.

00:41The agency has supported countless programs,

00:44ranging from fighting poverty to improving agriculture and saving millions of lives around the world.

00:50I think we've lost the humanitarian instinct, the humanitarian imperative in the U.S. government

00:55by shutting AID down.

00:57And I think people in the developing world will see that,

01:00or they already see it in many areas of the world.

01:02I think there's a lot of anger toward the United States because of what's happened to AID.

01:09A new study published in the U.S. journal The Lancet on Monday

01:12found that as many as 14 million people could lose their lives

01:16if U.S. cuts to humanitarian aid continue until 2030.

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