US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle
A U.S. aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi
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International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze
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USAID aid freeze triggers health care crisis in Africa
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Judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid
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Judge continues to block Trump administration's freeze on federal aid
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Trump's foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in Africa. Here's what's at stake
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Over 20 people are missing after local clashes at the Kenya-Ethiopia border
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Over 20 people are missing after local clashes at the Kenya-Ethiopia border
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The Influence of Foreign Aid
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‘We’re Just Keeping Everybody Alive’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze
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Warmer weather on the way as severe freeze loosens dangerous grip
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Pentagon to fire 5,400 probationary workers, institute hiring freeze
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Farmers hit by a federal funding freeze scramble to respond ahead of spring thaw
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Trump’s latest budget nominee avows funding freeze, pledges to follow Vought
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Trump is correct on Ukraine and right to put Zelensky on the spot
I have no problem with anyone being vehemently opposed to Vladimir Putin and Russia. But such opposition should not blind them to the obvious questions that must still be asked about what is best ...The Hill - 3d -
Brutal flu season puts strain on doctors, hospitals
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Democrats blast Trump for putting Bongino at FBI
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Utah Republicans push to let patients supply their own blood as vaccine concerns linger
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‘We’re healing this common body we call a nation’: the plays assessing Kenya’s present by retelling its past
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Family of BBC charity worker killed in Kenya seek answers after coroner’s ruling
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