Tag: USAID
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🇿🇲 Zambia Draws a Line: $1.5 Billion U.S. Health Deal Stripped of Data and Minerals Clauses
Zambia has signed a five-year, $1.5 billion U.S. health financing agreement after negotiating the removal of controversial biological-specimen and patient-data provisions and separating health cooperation from critical-minerals negotiations.
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🇧🇫 The U.S. Returns to Burkina Faso: Contradiction or Calculated Strategy?
Amid shifting alliances in the Sahel, Washington’s new $147 million commitment signals a quiet recalibration of American policy in West Africa. Just months after scaling back its military presence in the Sahel, the United States has announced a $147 million aid package to Burkina Faso — and the timing is sharply symbolic. At first glance,…