U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.

Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to other private and public donors now that the Trump administration has suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts

It sends a signal to Africa that the time has come for us to be more self-reliant.” Over the next few years aid cuts will lead to great harm. But Mr Mahama is not alone among African politicians in viewing the crisis as an opportunity for Africa to escape the dependence that has distorted policymaking and sapped self-esteem.

The Trump administrations sweeping cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have halted thousands of programs, affecting everything from disease prevention in Myanmar to fisheries in Ghana.