Hacker News with Generative AI: International Aid

Trump administration's blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher (wired.com)
According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA), and to bring it directly under the secretary of state.
Politics, Government, International Aid, Blockchain
12 points by alphabettsy 34 days ago | 2 comments
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to keep $2B in foreign aid frozen (cbsnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money to flow to groups that have done work for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development overseas.
Politics, Law, International Aid
19 points by zo1 52 days ago | 3 comments
Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices after USAID funding pause (apnews.com)
In a warehouse in Haiti, nearly four metric tons of seeds cannot be distributed. Soon the planting season will be gone and with it, the best chance for those seeds to produce emergency food.
International Aid, Haiti, Humanitarian Crisis, Politics
6 points by apical_dendrite 73 days ago | 3 comments
USAID was investigating its public-private partnership between Starlink-Ukraine (gizmodo.com)
Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.
Government, International Aid, SpaceX, Ukraine, Public-Private Partnerships
53 points by gpi 80 days ago | 21 comments
Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN's Top Gaza Aid Agency (wired.com)
Israel, Google Ads, United Nations, Gaza, International Aid
16 points by amalinovic 242 days ago | 2 comments