Many Africas

01/04/2025

Is conservation worth supporting? Is the Pope catholic? What about social and health programs. America has abandoned Africa.

Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking

07/02/2025

The facts, for those of you still interested in them:

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.

07/02/2025

A former British Prime Minister sets out the disaster currently underway. I think he's being polite. If you're an American who believes that the rest of the world is taking advantage of you, they're not. This passage is key: "Trump’s claim that America has been over-generous is exposed as yet another exaggeration. Norway tops the list as biggest donor of official development assistance (ODA) as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) at 1.09%; Britain is at just over 0.5%, albeit down from the UN target of 0.7%; but the US is near the bottom of the advanced economies at 0.24% – alongside Slovenia and the Czech Republic. It is simply the size of the US economy – 26% of world output – that means that the 0.24% adds up to more aid than any other country. The US provided $66bn in 2023, making USAid a leader in global humanitarian aid, education and health, not least in addressing HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis."
Please come back to us, America. The victim complex your president is currently trying to foist on you is unbecoming of you, to say the least.

The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global education

20/01/2025

Yes, do! I will, I hope

19/01/2025

16/01/2025

Do it!

09/01/2025

Culture, history, wildlife, incredible views. On my bucket list.

21/12/2024

Amazing achievement

Deo Kato says journey from Cape Town gave him hope in humanity, despite facing racism from police and passersby on a daily basis

18/12/2024

😮

16/12/2024

Not sure about the toilet with a view of you but otherwise this is the future of travel. Don’t fly over, walk through and meet people