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Vol 66 No 5

Published 7th March 2025


US retreat opens door to Chinese and Russian influence

Trump’s swingeing aid cuts will accelerate decline of US soft power in this heavily contested region

Washington’s 90-day freeze on humanitarian and development programmes is escalating into a full-scale withdrawal undercutting United States’ influence, especially in the Horn of Africa wracked by multiple conflicts and geopolitical rivalries. The immediate victims of the funding cuts are the 30 million people trapped in Sudan’s civil war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with diminishing food stocks and little or no access to health care and medicines.

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