DIKWA, Nigeria (AP) — Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.
“Feeding is severely difficult,” said Bulama, 40, who was a farmer before Boko Haram militants swept through her village, forcing her to flee. She and about 400,000 other people at the humanitarian hub of Dikwa — virtually the entire population — rely on assistance. The military restricts their movements to a designated “safe zone,” which severely limits farming.
For years, the United States Agency for International Development had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, helping non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people. But this year, the Trump administration cut more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world.
Programs serving children were hit hard.
But at least musk gets a tax break
USAID spent $38.1 billion in fiscal year 2023. (1)
Sounds like a lot of money, right? Well, actually no. It’s less than 1% of the US budget. In 2024, total federal spending was $6.8 trillion. (2).
To give you a perspective:
Since October 7th, the United States spent $17.9 billion dollars on military aid to Israel (3). Israel is a rich country with universal healthcare (4).
US millionaires and billionaires evade more than $150 billion a year in taxes, according to the head of the IRS. (5). Gabriel Zucman, a highly respected economist (6) came to a similar conclusion. In a recent paper, Zucman found the richest americans evade taxes on 25% of their income (7)
According to leaked tax returns, in 2016 and 2017, Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes. And he paid no income tax at all in 10 of the last 15 years. (8) (9).
The US is not in financial trouble because of vaccines to kids in Africa. Period.
Elon Musk claims USAID employees are thieves/scum. He keeps accusing them of fraud on his social media X. That’s another lie.
In 2024, the Office of the Inspector General audited USAID at the request of Congress. The 70 page audit report found no evidence of fraud.
Trump and Musk killed these people. They purposely did this because they don’t care.
Elon Musk is from of Africa. He grew up in a wealthy african family.
His massive cuts will impact war refugees and some of the poorest people in Africa. People who, for no fault of their own, were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is how he gives back to Africans.
If they were white, they wouldn’t have died.
You think they care about the color or the amount of money they have? Which is more important to them to discriminate you think?
Color
Actually it’s Colour to me UK English.
I would bet good money that Trump cares just as little about white children.
Conservative voters killed these children. Just like they do school students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/fsu-shooting-gunman-phoenix-ikner.html
Not to be both sides but nothings more American than killing brown children
God Damn…true. but still god damn
Trump and Musk killed these people.
Oh come on! Harris and Biden would have done worse!
Thank God I didn’t vote for genocide!
Can you imagine the hellscape that would have resulted if harris had made the unforgivable blunder of listening to people who don’t like genocide?
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A white South African did that. Is anybody surprised?
I want Burkina Faso to succeed, I want them to form a stable bloc, to empower each other and to help neighboring nations, I really hope and I really do, that it becomes reality, we need to lift every individual from poverty, give every tribe a benefit to allow them to thrive, I hope that West African governments can come together
