South Africa’s entertainment industry dazzles audiences with its creativity, but for many creatives, the reality is far less glamorous. Despite government support programmes, industry players say they ...

While it’s been obvious to anyone paying attention, Xbox is becoming increasingly platform agnostic. A year ago, during its much-publicised “business update”, it talked carefully about four ...

The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), known for cotton standards like Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) and Cotton made in Africa Organic, announced today the introduction of its new transparency standard in ...

Dozens of senior officials in the U.S. agency that administers foreign aid were reportedly placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into alleged resistance to President Donald Trump's orders.

Training Mexican and Colombian police in anti-narcotics enforcement. Those are just a tiny sample of aid programs around the world operating with grant money from the U.S. government that could be ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted spending Friday on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military ...

The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

By Maria Varenikova and Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine A week after the Trump administration abruptly ordered a sweeping halt to U.S. foreign development aid, the effect is already ...

President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on nearly all U.S. foreign aid froze a globe-spanning apparatus that provides assistance ranging from weapons of war to lifesaving medicines. Under an ...

On top of this, we’ll also be using the country development finance data from the International Aid Transparency Initiative which gives us data on multilateral spending toward the region.

The sweeping directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pause nearly all US aid brought scores of programs – from global health to emergency shelter to countertrafficking – to a halt.