A brave and much needed article amidst all the shock and lamenting. It would be great if Compass would commission Sims to write a "Part 2" on his suggestions as to how a lean, effective and non-partisan approach to foreign assistance that shifts the power to the Global South can be achieved.
Stop making excuses for what is a monstrous act of cruelty. This statement of the potential long-run benefits of killing USAID simply detracts from the immediate cruelty of the present action.
I agree with the idea of splitting development and humanitarian aid. But the abrupt killing of USAID is an act of democide on a par with the ill-conceived programs of Mao in the late 1950s. Killing USAID is what historians will remember Trump for; that is something we both might agree on.
The abruptness of the decision is primarily to blame for the high number of predicted deaths, as per The Lancet in June of 2025: "estimates more than 14 million people could die by 2030 as a result of USAID cuts, including 4.5 million children younger than 5 years old."
Even if the Lancet estimate is on the high side, Dr. Brooke Nichols of Boston University estimates that, as of June 26, 2025, since USAID was cut, over 300,000 additional deaths have occurred, and almost 225,000 of those are children.
Those who commit democide are disqualified from receiving any Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, we as The African Democratic Party's point of view is of course that African countries are still imbued with feminine, poverty, deprivation, lack of development and being in continuas dependency to donor countries, supply organizations and in need.
It would Help them a lot to dissossiate their leaders from involvement destructive acts of fraud, corruption, maladministration, extortion, money laundering ...etc, because these scarges are a main and major hinderance to their countries citizens to obtain meaningful humanitarian aid and development.
We've long been urging the United State of America Donald Trump in particular to consider relaxing his steep terrifs especially to the African countries because they're poorest of the poor are the ones who end up totally destroyed at the end of the day.
The point at hand is the collapsing of USAID and the humanitarian aid. Which results in many poor loosing their lives.
As a result we urge the African leaders to stop the dependency to donor suppliers but seriously devise self sustaining efforts and majors. For the survival of it's citizens. Also urging the supper power international organizations and leaders to assist them in adoption to such moves.
A brave and much needed article amidst all the shock and lamenting. It would be great if Compass would commission Sims to write a "Part 2" on his suggestions as to how a lean, effective and non-partisan approach to foreign assistance that shifts the power to the Global South can be achieved.
Stop making excuses for what is a monstrous act of cruelty. This statement of the potential long-run benefits of killing USAID simply detracts from the immediate cruelty of the present action.
I agree with the idea of splitting development and humanitarian aid. But the abrupt killing of USAID is an act of democide on a par with the ill-conceived programs of Mao in the late 1950s. Killing USAID is what historians will remember Trump for; that is something we both might agree on.
The abruptness of the decision is primarily to blame for the high number of predicted deaths, as per The Lancet in June of 2025: "estimates more than 14 million people could die by 2030 as a result of USAID cuts, including 4.5 million children younger than 5 years old."
Even if the Lancet estimate is on the high side, Dr. Brooke Nichols of Boston University estimates that, as of June 26, 2025, since USAID was cut, over 300,000 additional deaths have occurred, and almost 225,000 of those are children.
Those who commit democide are disqualified from receiving any Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, we as The African Democratic Party's point of view is of course that African countries are still imbued with feminine, poverty, deprivation, lack of development and being in continuas dependency to donor countries, supply organizations and in need.
It would Help them a lot to dissossiate their leaders from involvement destructive acts of fraud, corruption, maladministration, extortion, money laundering ...etc, because these scarges are a main and major hinderance to their countries citizens to obtain meaningful humanitarian aid and development.
We've long been urging the United State of America Donald Trump in particular to consider relaxing his steep terrifs especially to the African countries because they're poorest of the poor are the ones who end up totally destroyed at the end of the day.
The point at hand is the collapsing of USAID and the humanitarian aid. Which results in many poor loosing their lives.
As a result we urge the African leaders to stop the dependency to donor suppliers but seriously devise self sustaining efforts and majors. For the survival of it's citizens. Also urging the supper power international organizations and leaders to assist them in adoption to such moves.
ADP PRES VUSI SIMPHIWE MKHIZE DBN SA.