In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down.
In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers.
In Ukraine, residents on the frontline of the war with Russia may be going without firewood in the middle of winter.
Some of the world’s most vulnerable populations are already feeling President Trump’s sudden cutoff of billions of dollars in American aid that helps fend off starvation, treats diseases and provides shelter for the displaced.
In a matter of days, Mr. Trump’s order to freeze nearly all U.S. foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised profound questions about America’s reliability and global standing.
“Everyone is freaking out,” Atif Mukhtar of the Emergency Response Rooms, a local volunteer group in the besieged Sudanese capital, Khartoum, said of the aid freeze.
A map showing countries have been affected by President Trump’s decision to halt foreign aid.
Most of the soup kitchens that feed 816,000
people in Khartoum have shut down.
Organizations that provide maternal care,
vaccinations and firewood were forced
to suspend operations.
Patients were told to leave a
U.S.-funded refugee hospital
on the Myanmar border.
A U.S. contractor that provides
security for a camp that holds
ISIS members and their families
was forced to halt operations.
Aid workers say about 40 newborns
contracted H.I.V. per day when the U.S.
stopped funding for antiretroviral drugs.
A U.S.-sponsored program collecting sensitive
intelligence on Al Qaeda-related incidents has
been interrupted.
Most of the soup kitchens that feed 816,000
people in Khartoum have shut down.
Patients were told to leave a U.S.-funded
refugee hospital on the Myanmar border.
Organizations that provide maternal care, vaccinations
and firewood were forced to suspend operations.
A U.S.-sponsored program collecting
sensitive intelligence on Al Qaeda-related
incidents has been interrupted.
A U.S. contractor that provides security for
a camp holding ISIS members and their
families was forced to halt operations.
Aid workers say about 40 newborns contracted H.I.V. per day
when the U.S. stopped funding for antiretroviral drugs.
By Malika Khurana
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