Ground Truthing African Harms from Trump's Assault on USAID

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On Thursday morning at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern time, join me LIVE with editor-in-chief Krista Karch and reporter Nakisanze Segawa (in Kampala, Uganda) to get an update on how the Trump/Musk assault on the U.S. Agency for International Development is playing out in communities where American development assistance has been abruptly cut off. Just paste this post link in your calendar for that day/hour and join us live on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube.

Before the show I hope you can read some of the reporting Segawa and other Global Press journalists have been doing. Here’s the link to their continuing series covering this crisis.

explore Global Press reporting on the USAID cuts

Just in case you might have missed it, also please read my former colleague Nick Kristof’s invaluable column: The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children.

Amid the current debate over USAID, it’s important to note that Global Press, unlike some other journalism projects in the world’s pooer regions, takes no government money, its founder and CEO, Cristi Hegranes, told me. (For full disclosure, last year I was paid a small per-diem and my expenses were covered by the State Department when I did a three-city tour in Brazil to brainstorm with environment-focused journalists.)

In case you missed it, here’s my recent post on how the USAID cuts are affecting journalism in countries that need help most:

Here’s our May 20, 2022, Sustain What show with Global Press leadership:

Here’s my first webcast with Global Press, in May 4, 2020, focused on the unfolding impact of COVID-19 in Asia and Africa: