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People protest against US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's plan to shutdown USAID outside the US Capitol on February 5, 2025. [AFP]
The shock announcement that the sixty-four-year-old USAID has been cancelled at the stroke of a President's pen went viral earlier this month. While the international headlines may have subsided, the impact on millions of Kenyans has not.
How is the Kenya Kwanza administration and 47 county governments responding to ensure our health rights are not jeopardised? US President Donald Trump's January 24 "total freeze" order on all US foreign aid is probably the most drastic blanket ban in the entire history of international development assistance. Overnight, USAID building signs, email addresses and websites were brought down.
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