US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar


Making do: Two men selling yams they found in a forest to a shop owner in the Tak province of Thailand. — AP

Across the country and in the refugee camps along its borders, the suffering unleashed by the United States’ gutting of its foreign aid programme has been severe and deadly, particularly for children.

In interviews with 21 Myanmar refugees, five people trapped in internment camps inside Myanmar and 40 aid workers, medics and researchers, the AP uncovered widespread devastation due to President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Develop­ment.

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