By Abdi Latif Dahir and Stephanie Nolen Abdi Latif Dahir reported from Kampala and Mbale in Uganda. Stephanie Nolen covers global health. March 6, 2025 The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has worsened ...
“Uganda’s Ebola outbreak occurred on the same day as ... while striving to do what’s best for the American people.” Other lifesaving USAID programs ostensibly granted humanitarian waivers ...
"This will no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale," Nick Enrich wrote in the memo.
Rarely if ever does a newspaper headline include the words “crisis averted,” yet, that is what investments in development ...
While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts ...
The Trump administration has officially ended at least four of five United States-funded Ebola contracts in Uganda.
When something is detected—like the Ebola outbreak now underway in Uganda—USAID would normally swing into action with an active response team, deploying technical experts to support the ...
The Diseases Are Coming
For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...
The WHO has given Uganda at least $3 million to support its Ebola response, but there have been concerns about adequate funding in the wake of the U.S. administration’s decision to terminate 60% of ...
In this episode of the Africanews debates, our expert panel dives into the real impact of USAID’s potential exit.