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Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by US aid cuts, UN migration agency says

The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects worldwide and firing staff following funding cuts led by the United States.

Sudanese police accuse RSF paramilitaries after 11 bodies found at bottom of a well in Khartoum

People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victim rests on a mattress at a UNICEF office in Sudan, Dec. 2, 2024. According to UNICEF, the girl and her 19- year- old sister, were kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers for four months, before they escaped and later learned they were both pregnant.(Tess Ingram/UNICEF via AP)

UN: Sudan war is world’s worst humanitarian crisis: 30 million need aid, 16 million of them kids

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

UN launches reform initiative as it nears its 80th anniversary and faces funding cuts

Sudanese try to find normality in Ramadan celebrations as internal conflict rages on

Displaced Sudanese who have returned to Omdurman after a long time away due to the ongoing conflict in the country have been celebrating the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

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Super Bowl halftime performer detained after unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian flag

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South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings in Juba, South Sudan, on Oct. 20, 2019, to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

Uganda deploys special forces to South Sudan to protect the government as fears of civil war grow

Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File)

Confronting backlash against women’s rights, 193 nations commit to speed action on gender equality

Lane Pollack, center, of Rockville, Md., a senior learning advisor at USAID for 14 years, is consoled by a co-worker after having 15 minutes to clear out her belongings from the USAID headquarters, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone

Tetyana Bobina and her daughter Aleksandra receive humanitarian aid provided by UN World Food Program and ADRA charity organisation for the residents of the region and internally displaced persons at the distribution center in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze

South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings in Juba, South Sudan, on Oct. 20, 2019, to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

1 crew member killed as UN helicopter is attacked in violence-prone South Sudan

People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Nearly 100 people died of cholera in less than a month in Sudan’s White Nile State

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Sudan files case to UN court alleging UAE is breaching genocide convention by funding rebels

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Army surrounds South Sudan vice president’s home as his allies are arrested

In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victim rests on a mattress at a UNICEF office in Sudan, Dec. 2, 2024. According to UNICEF, the girl and her 19- year- old sister, were kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers for four months, before they escaped and later learned they were both pregnant.(Tess Ingram/UNICEF via AP)

More than 200 children were raped in Sudan since the beginning of 2024, UN children’s agency says

Somali internally-displaced persons (IDP) children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed

General view of Zamzam refugee camp after being attacked, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Darfur region, Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp of half a million people

Delegates sing during a planned signing ceremony of the Sudan Founding Charter aimed at establishing a unity government involving leaders of political forces, armed groups, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Sudan’s military is making advances to retake the capital. What’s changing in the nearly 2-year war?

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Death toll in Sudan military plane crash rises to 46

This combo shows Zamzam refugee camp and market buildings, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Darfur region, Sudan, before being attacked, on Tuesday Jan. 14, 2025, left, and after being attacked, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Security conditions in a famine-hit camp in Sudan are ‘unbearable,’ an aid group says

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Heavy fighting in Sudan forces Doctors Without Borders to stop aid at a camp with 500,000 people

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Sudan’s military breaks paramilitary group’s siege of crucial city

Representatives of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sing during a planned signing ceremony of the Sudan Founding Charter aimed at establishing a unity government involving leaders of political forces, armed groups, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF and allies sign a deal to pave the way for parallel government

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Cholera kills 58 and sickens about 1,300 others over 3 days in a Sudanese city, health officials say

Representatives of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sing during a planned signing ceremony of the Sudan Founding Charter aimed at establishing a unity government involving leaders of political forces, armed groups, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Kenya reaffirms commitment to peace after Sudan’s accusations of ‘hostility’

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Attacks by Sudanese RSF paramilitaries leave hundreds dead in White Nile State

George Polk Awards honor reporting on conflicts in Israel, Sudan, Ukraine and Haiti

This photo provided by World Relief shows care group volunteers Neimate Mustafa and John Simon Mbiliwele, who provide community health education, visiting a homestead in January 2022, in Maridi, South Sudan. (Esther Mbabazi/World Relief via AP)

Christian aid groups receive millions in USAID funds. Now their humanitarian work is collapsing

Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Unspent aid worth billions lacks oversight as Trump dismantles USAID, watchdog warns

UN official says Sudan paramilitary group is preventing life-saving aid from famine-hit Darfur

A flag is raised during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

What’s happening in the Gaza Strip and Sudan that sparked a protest at the Super Bowl halftime show?

The American flag flying alone beside an empty flagpole that previously had the flag of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are pictured in the reflection of a window that previously had the sign and the seal of USAID, outside the agency's headquarters in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Judge blocks Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving them 30-day deadline

People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse had died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Uganda begins Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse and infects 2 other people

A man sits outside the closed Isizinda Sempilo clinic in the Johannesburg township of Soweto Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Africa knew Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge meant it might be last. Then came the freeze on aid

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Paramilitary group attacks an open market in Sudan, killing 54 people and wounding scores

Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

International Criminal Court has Putin, Netanyahu in its sights, yet its courtrooms are empty