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Foreign funding of NGOs, including newspapers, also occurs in Nigeria. [10] Nigeria adopted a law restricting foreign funding in 2017, closely modeled on a similar law adopted by Sierra Leone in 2016. Freedom House stated that the law could lead to "improper state control of NGO programs, if not outright co-optation of NGOs". [9]
The order to pause foreign aid is part of a broader Trump administration effort to pull back on America’s engagement abroad ― by, for example, withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
The entire scope of Trump’s freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), issued in an executive order on Jan. 20, is hard to fully comprehend, and it ...
A sign for the World Food Programme outside a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) food aid warehouse in Deir Al-balah, Gaza, on Jan. 23, 2025.
Nigeria is a major destination for U.S. foreign aid – in 2021, Nigeria was estimated to have been in the top ten recipients by volume. [160] Between 2012 and 2021, the U.S.'s annual aid obligations in Nigeria ranged between $624 million and, in 2020, $1.11 billion. [ 161 ]
Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence; capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of ...
The U.S. has stopped purchases for foreign food aid programs since the Trump administration began a sweeping review of federal aid spending, despite a waiver issued nearly two weeks ago for food ...
The Biden administration on Wednesday suspended $95 million in U.S. assistance to Georgia after its parliament adopted legislation related to foreign agents that critics say was inspired by a ...