Africa

Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value

by USAID Alumni Association as shared with the USAA network and sent to the Department of State February 13, 2025

February 13, 2025:   The United States Agency for International Development Association's Alumni Association, of retired USAID experts, petitioned new Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the USAID Administrator, with this letter this week, citing a few of the many USAID-supported projects ...

USAID Adds Value in Disaster Response, Says Former Hunger Notes Chair

by Peter Morris, Retired USAID Disaster Leader February 12, 2025

Opinion piece from the former WHES Board Chair:   Most people do not realize what a huge mistake it would be to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as appears to be underway here in February 2025.  It would be like throwing the prove...

Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine

by January 14, 2025

WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine:  https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...

Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book

by January 14, 2025

Book Review:    Roger Thurow’s Against the Grain:  How Farmers Around the Globe are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Health the Planet (2024, Publisher:  Agate Surrey) American journalist, Roger Thurow, has written consistently about global hunger...

Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize

by October 30, 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail:  The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Crown Publishers), which arr...

Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny

by April 13, 2024

Book Classic:  Famine, Conflict and Response:  a Basic Guide By Fred Cuny, with Rick Hill      (West Hartford, CN:  Kumarian Press       1999) This basic, extremely readable text about famine prevention and relief remains a preferred textb...

BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World

by steve hansch February 6, 2024

BOOK REVIEW:  The Enduring Struggle:  The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris.   2021.   Lanham MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assista...

New World Food Programme Director says “Not on my watch”

by Helen Murphy Devex Newswire July 21, 2023

Cindy McCain, the new Director of WFP, says she will not let the widespread  corruption of food aid take place in the future.  Recently arrived, Ms. McCain, has had to shut down food programs in Ethiopia over the widespread misuse of food aid resources by local authorities....

In extraordinary move, USAID suspends all food aid to Ethiopia

by Obi Anyadike The New Humanitarian June 10, 2023

In an extraordinary move, USAID has suspended all food aid to Ethiopia countrywide due to widespread and systemic corruption by federal and local authorities.  The World Food Programme Director and Deputy Director have both stepped down from their positions....

The Razor’s Edge: Embezzlement, Corruption and Development in Ethiopia, a Novel (2022)

by WHES board - S Hansch April 23, 2023

For anyone interested in learning what development work overseas entails and what work is like, there may be no better introduction than Robert Gurevich’s novel, The Razor’s Edge.  Thinly modeled on his own experiences in Africa, with his protagonist, writing in the first person...

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