Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

How USAID cuts threaten the Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts in Vietnam

At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent Orange defoliant. The Trump administration’s broad cuts to USAID also halted efforts to clear unexploded American munitions and landmines, a rehabilitation program for war victims, and work on a museum exhibit detailing U.S. efforts to remediate the damage of the Vietnam…

Agent Orange Cleanup and Other Efforts Critical to Ties with Vietnam Jeopardized by USAID Cuts

At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent Orange defoliant.

In Madagascar, the Great South of the island, which is usually plagued by drought and famine, has just undergone two intense weather events within 15 days. A cyclone followed by a tropical storm, which killed nine people, leaving more than 115,000 people suffering more than ever. The recent withdrawal of US aid, stopped several dozen projects. Today, the NGO Action Against Hunger, which was involved massively in this area and which has also had …

Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent Orange defoliant.

Trump halted an Agent Orange cleanup. That puts hundreds of thousands

Diplomats in Vietnam warned that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe

A Furloughed Foreign Aid Worker Says Trump Should Be More Like Ted Lasso

The Trump administration and Republican senators should take a note from Ted Lasso and “be curious, not judgmental” about the real value of USAID spending.